Perlbrew

Perlbrew is a tool to manage multiple perl installations in your $HOME directory.

Setup perlbrew for the first time

Create setup script ~/.perlbrew.sh:

# Reset any environment variables that could confuse `perlbrew`:
export PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT=
export PERL_MB_OPT=
export PERL_MM_OPT=

# decide where you want to install perlbrew:
export PERLBREW_ROOT=~/perlbrew
[[ -f "$PERLBREW_ROOT/etc/bashrc" ]] && source "$PERLBREW_ROOT/etc/bashrc"

Create installation script install_perlbrew.sh:

source ~/.perlbrew.sh
curl -L https://install.perlbrew.pl | bash
source "$PERLBREW_ROOT/etc/bashrc"

# Decide which version you would like to install:
version=perl-5.24.1
perlbrew install "$version"
perlbrew install-cpanm
perlbrew switch  "$version"

Run installation script:

./install_perlbrew.sh

Add to the end of your ~/.bashrc

[[ -f ~/.perlbrew.sh ]] && source ~/.perlbrew.sh

Source ~/.bashrc:

source ~/.bashrc

Remarks

See also

• Official homepage for perlbrew
• CPAN documentation for perlbrew