perlbrew is a program to automate the building and installation of multiple versions of Perl in your $HOME directory.
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How can I add an externally managed Perl installs to Perlbrew?
I would like to use perlbrew to manage multiple Perl installations on my system.
However, in addition to the clean installs from CPAN and the system install, I have a couple of other Perl installs that are tied to specific projects. I would like to…

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perlbrew _Perl_xs_apiversion_bootcheck error with perl 5.22.2
Using perlbrew to move from perl 5.16.0 to 5.22.2
Running on a MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan
Install of new version of perl seemed to work just fine. However when I switch to 5.22.2 and attempt to run any of my scripts I see this error…

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How to install perlbrew without root access?
How do you install perlbrew without root access?
Part way through the installation process I am getting Can't locate Devel/PatchPerl.pm in @INC in the installation log when it fails.

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How do I install the latest BioPerl version when using perlbrew?
I'm using perlbrew and I would like to install the latest bioperl version. Should I use cpanm or git?
If git - do I just install as usual (AKA git clone ... then make and build), or should I do anything special?
UPDATE
Specifically, I'm not sure I…

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Failed Perlbrew install on shared webspace
I am looking for help to install perlbrew on my shared webspace (Provider: uberspace.de). I used the usually documentation an perlbrew.pl and put:
\curl -L http://install.perlbrew.pl | bash
In my terminal.
Download completed, but than the terminal…

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cpanm, perlbrew not working with sudo
I'm using CentOS 6.6 and install Perl, cpanm, and Perlbrew to it. But when I try to run Perlbrew (to install specific Perl version) or cpanm with sudoer permission, a "not found error" comes out:
sudo: cpanm: command not found
sudo: perlbrew:…

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Error running perlbrew script though apache+suexec
We have a server running Centos 5.11, Apache 2.2 and default perl. Running scripts through suexec is working "just fine", but I have installed perlbrew so that I can install a load of extra modules without interferring with it.
I have created a…

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Why "sudo perl" and "perl" execute different perl version?
Ubuntu 14 came with perl v5.18.2, but I would like to test my program with perl v5.22.0 which is installed through perlbrew and then perlbrew switch perl-5.22.0 to use the version I want.
After switch to perl v5.22.0, I have tried to test my program…

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Can't locate SOAP/Lite.pm in @INC
I am trying to build LDV project by following this instructions, and i know nothing about perl.
i am getting the following error while running the test
ldv-task: NORMAL: Calling LDV-core.
Can't locate SOAP/Lite.pm in @INC (@INC contains:…

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install different version of perl module using perl brew
we are using perlbrew for maintaining the various version of perl.
Along , now we are facing challenges as we need to update the scripts to the latest CPAN module. But we want still some the script to keep make use of old perl module till the…

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Installing Perl 5.10.1 on Yosemite with perlbrew fails groups.t test
perlbrew version is 0.7.3, OS X version is 10.10.2. After working around an issue with locales, I'm stuck on an issue with groups.t:
Test Summary Report
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op/groups.t (Wstat: 0…

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perlbrew perl installation, is build folder necessary after install?
I installed perl5 using perlbrew using the following command
perlbrew install -v perl-5.18.2 -Dusethreads -n --as perl-5.18.2_WITH_THREADS
After the installation, I find that this folder "~/perl5/perlbrew/build" takes 182MB. Is this folder…

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apt-get Perl 5.18.2 in debian:wheezy with threading support
I'm trying to install perl 5.18.2 with threading support in ubuntu using apt-get (binary installation, not from source)
Basically, the equivalent of the following perlbrew-based installation
perlbrew install -v perl-5.18.2 -Dusethreads -n --as…

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Can't install perl 5.14.2 with perlbrew
I am on a virtual machine with Debian (6.0.7-i386) and i want to learn Perl (with Beginning Perl written by Curtis Poe).
I have trouble with perlbrew.
I installed perlbrew with
wget --no-check-certificate -O - http://install.perlbrew.pl | bash
I…

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How can I serve CGI scripts using perlbrew w/ Apache?
Error log:
[Tue Jun 17 12:08:35 2014] [error] [client 172.18.40.199] Perl v5.16.0 required--this is only v5.10.1, stopped at index.cgi line 2.
[Tue Jun 17 12:08:35 2014] [error] [client 172.18.40.199] BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at index.cgi…

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