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perlbrew - Installation of Perl on User Directries

perlbrew is a command line tool to intall Perl on user directries. You can install any version of Perl on your user directries and use it.

Execute the following command to install perlbrew.

curl -L http://install.perlbrew.pl | bash

If you don't have curl command, use wget command or fetch command.

# Linux
wget -O - http://install.perlbrew.pl | bash

# FreeBSD
fetch -o- http://install.perlbrew.pl | sh

You can also install perlbrew from CPAN.

sudo cpan App::perlbrew
perlbrew init

Add the perlbrew settings to "~/.bashrc".

echo "source ~/perl5/perlbrew/etc/bashrc" >> ~/.bashrc

Reload "~/.bashrc".

source ~/.bashrc

Add the perlbrew settings to "~/.cshrc".

echo "source ~/perl5/perlbrew/etc/cshrc" >> ~/.cshrc

Reload "~/.cshrc".

source ~/.cshrc

You can check the available Perls using available command.

# Show the available Perls
perlbrew available

Let's install a Perl using install command. The latest Perl version for 2022 is v5.34.1.

# Install Perl
perlbrew install perl-5.34.1

If the installation of Perl fails, check the following commands are installled. These commands are needed to install Perl.

Show the list of installed Perls using list command.

# Show the list of installed Perls
perlbrew list

The installed Perls are displayed.

  perl-5.34.1

And switch to the installed Perl.

perlbrew switch perl-5.34.1

And show the installed Perls again.

# Show the installed Perls
perlbrew list

"*" is added to the head of the current Perl.

* perl-5.34.1

And see the Perl version.

perl -v

The version of current Perl is displayed.

This is perl 5, version 34, subversion 1 (v5.34.1) built for x86_64-linux

cpanm can be installed using install-cpanm command.

perlbrew install-cpanm

And install a module.

cpanm JSON

Modules are installed on the following directory in my case.

/home/kimoto/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.34.1/lib/site_perl/5.34.1/

If you want to returning back to system Perl, use off command.

perlbrew off