I installed Debian on a seperate box, following those instructions, a couple of weeks ago. I can't remember exactly how I got perl installed but I do know that perl 5.8 is required to run the emulator. I ran across a post a while back that mentioned the 5.8.7 definately worked and 5.8.8 should work. I am running 5.8.8 on my Debian and it is running fine.
Just found the post:
http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/sho...ighlight=5.8.7
You might try removing Perl 5.10 and installing 5.8.