perlbrew is a program to automate the building and installation of multiple versions of Perl in your $HOME directory.
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Building Perl for OS X - Architecture-Specific Compile Options
Thanks to a suggestion from Chas. Owens, I have been having fun playing with Perlbrew to have various Perl builds in my home directory. My question is more generally on building a newer Perl under OS X however.
I have OS X 10.6.4 Snow Leopard…

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Modules install successfully but cannot be found
I am wondering why I get "Installing the dependencies failed: Module 'Module::Name' is not installed" even when dependency is has been installed. I am using perlbrew and cpanm. Here is an example of what happens with many modules that I try to…

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Error locating modules using perlbrew and cpanm
I want to use perlbrew and cpanm on my machine. I installed perlbrew like this
curl -L http://install.perlbrew.pl | bash
and sourced ~/perl5/perlbrew/etc/bashrc in my .bashrc. Next I installed perl v5.21.5 and switched to this version.The which…

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How to create a init-script for an Perl catalyst application running on nginx with fastcgi and perlbrew
I'm looking for a initscript to make usage of perlbrew on a webserver running a nginx as proxy for an perl catalyst application. I'm currently trying to start the app via
source $PERLBREW
execute "perlbrew use perl-5.14.4@devel"
execute "mkdir…

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Installing alternative perl version - module missing
I have a webapp which uses an older version of Perl. I therefore installed an independent Perl version using perlbrew, made a symlink /usr/bin/perlx and changed the path in all my perl files.
However, I still have some problems with the additional…

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Installing ancient perls with Perlbrew
I'm trying to use perlbrew to install some older Perls. I believe it's failing due to the old-style version numbers. According to perlbrew available:
perl-5.14.3-RC1
perl-5.16.1
perl-5.14.2
perl-5.12.4
perl-5.10.1
perl-5.8.9
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Having trouble using perlbrew to install perl 5.14.2 on OSX 10.8.0
On the advice I've read here and elsewhere, I decided to stop running sudo cpan, thus affecting the system perl, and instead use perlbrew to install and manage private versions of perl.
I installed perlbrew and ran perlbrew install perl-5.14.2, both…

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Perlbrew Error: Can't Locate Pod/Usage.pm
I'm having trouble installing Perlbrew. I am getting the error message:
"can't locate Pod/Usage.pm in @INC (@INC contains: CODE(0xa031ea8)
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/msys /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/msys…

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How do I compile 32bit Perl on a 64bit Linux machine using perlbrew?
I'm barely familiar with perlbrew. I think I need to use --sitecustomize $filename but I can't find examples of this file anywhere. I have no idea what to put in the file. Anyone got a sample I can look at?

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perlbrew install of perl-5.32.1 fails on macOS
perlbrew install perl-5.32.1
fails on macOS Big Sur (11.3.1)
The end of the log file includes this:
Test Summary Report
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porting/libperl.t (Wstat: 65280 Tests: 35 Failed: 0)
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How to install Carton module into local project with perlbrew?
I use perlbrew to easy switch between perl.
I use Carton to install modules only for current project into /local directory.
But when I deploy application on new host.
I do:
perlbrew install -v -j 8 --notest --switch perl-5.30.3
perlbrew…

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perlbrew custom folder for libs
When I use
perlbrew lib create testlibs
to have a folder to store test libraries from CPAN, it creates a folder under the following path:
$HOME/.perlbrew/libs/perl-5.32.0@testlibs/lib/perl5
How can I tell perlbrew to store the libs folder (…

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How to remove perlbrew versions/installations?
I'm running perl-5.32.0 on an Ubuntu VM, and I keep getting this warning every time I open a new terminal:
ERROR: The installation "perl-5.30.0" is unknown.
I removed directories to old versions, which caused this error (disk space is at a…

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correct perl path for vim
I've installed perlbrew and it works: when I do a 'perl -v' in a terminal, it reports that I'm using perl 5.14. But gvim (vim instead works) still thinks that I'm using 5.10...
How do I set the perl path for gvim?
thanks

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Perlbrew fails to install perl-5.30.0, op/groups.t at fault?
I'm attempting to install perl 5.30.0 from perl 5.16.3, I run
perlbrew install perl-5.30.0
but the installation fails, even with -f,
and selections from the error file show:
~/perl5/perlbrew/build/perl-5.30.0/perl-5.30.0$ grep -A1 -B1 -i failed…

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