App::perlbrew - Manage perl installations in your $HOME
# Installation curl -kL http://install.perlbrew.pl | bash # Initialize perlbrew init # Pick a preferred CPAN mirror perlbrew mirror # See what is available perlbrew available # Install some Perls perlbrew install 5.14.0 perlbrew install perl-5.8.1 perlbrew install perl-5.13.6 # See what were installed perlbrew list # Switch perl in the $PATH perlbrew switch perl-5.12.2 perl -v # Temporarily use another version only in current shell. perlbrew use perl-5.8.1 perl -v # Or turn it off completely. Useful when you messed up too deep. # Or want to go back to the system Perl. perlbrew off # Use 'switch' command to turn it back on. perlbrew switch perl-5.12.2 # Exec something with all perlbrew-ed perls perlbrew exec perl -E 'say $]'
perlbrew is a program to automate the building and installation of perl in an easy way. It installs everything to ~/perl5/perlbrew, and requires you to tweak your PATH by including a bashrc/cshrc file it provides. You then can benefit from not having to run 'sudo' commands to install cpan modules because those are installed inside your HOME too. It provides multiple isolated perl environments, and a mechanism for you to switch between them.
~/perl5/perlbrew
For the documentation of perlbrew usage see perlbrew command on CPAN, or by running perlbrew help. The following documentation features the API of App::perlbrew module, and may not be remotely close to what your want to read.
perlbrew help
App::perlbrew
It is the simpleist to use the perlbrew installer, just paste this statement to your terminal:
curl -kL http://install.perlbrew.pl | bash
Or this one, if you have fetch (default on FreeBSD):
fetch
fetch -o- http://install.perlbrew.pl | sh
After that, perlbrew installs itself to ~/perl5/perlbrew/bin, and you should follow the instruction on screen to modify your shell rc file to put it in your PATH.
perlbrew
~/perl5/perlbrew/bin
The installed perlbrew command is a standalone executable that can be run with system perl. The minimun system perl version requirement is 5.8.0, which should be good enough for most of the OSes these days.
A packed version of patchperl to ~/perl5/perlbrew/bin, which is required to build old perls.
patchperl
The directory ~/perl5/perlbrew will contain all install perl executables, libraries, documentations, lib, site_libs. In the documentation, that directory is referred as "perlbrew root". If you need to set it to somewhere else because, say, your HOME has limited quota, you can do that by setting PERLBREW_ROOT environment variable before running the installer:
PERLBREW_ROOT
export PERLBREW_ROOT=/opt/perl5 curl -kL http://install.perlbrew.pl | bash
You may also install perlbrew from CPAN:
cpan App::perlbrew
In this case, the perlbrew command is installed as /usr/bin/perlbrew or /usr/local/bin/perlbrew or others, depending on the location of your system perl installation.
/usr/bin/perlbrew
/usr/local/bin/perlbrew
Please make sure not to run this with one of the perls brewed with perlbrew. It's the best to turn perlbrew off before you run that, if you're upgrading.
perlbrew off cpan App::perlbrew
You should always use system cpan (like /usr/bin/cpan) to install App::perlbrew because it will be installed under a system PATH like /usr/bin, which is not affected by perlbrew switch or use command.
/usr/bin
switch
use
The self-upgrade command will not upgrade the perlbrew installed by cpan command, but it is also easy to upgrade perlbrew by running `cpan App::perlbrew` again.
self-upgrade
Return the "current perl" object attribute string, or, if absent, the value of PERLBREW_PERL environment variable.
Set the "current_perl" object attribute to the given value.
perlbrew project uses github http://github.com/gugod/App-perlbrew/issues and RT <https://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=App-perlbrew> for issue tracking. Issues sent to these two systems will eventually be reviewed and handled.
See https://github.com/gugod/App-perlbrew/contributors for a list of project contributors.
Kang-min Liu <gugod@gugod.org>
<gugod@gugod.org>
Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2012 Kang-min Liu <gugod@gugod.org>.
The MIT License
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To install App::perlbrew, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm App::perlbrew
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install App::perlbrew
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.