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perlbrew is a program to automate the building and installation of multiple versions of Perl in your $HOME directory.

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How do I install CPAN modules while using perlbrew?

I have started using perlbrew and installed perl-5.12.2. I understand I need to re-install my CPAN modules, so I switched to my new Perl version (perlbrew switch perl-5.12.2 and hash -r), verified the switch was successful (perl -v) then tried…
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perlbrew and local::lib at the same time?

So far I have been using the system perl (on Ubuntu 10.10) and I was using local::lib to install CPAN modules in my private directory ~/perl5 As I am trying to use perlbrew it seems that they don't know about each other. I installed perl-5.12.3…
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How can I completely uninstall perlbrew?

I'm lovin' it, but I suspect it causes some problem. I know I can use perlbrew off but I would like to completely remove it. How do I do that?
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How do I use perlbrew to manage perl installations aimed at web applications?

I have been using perlbrew to manage multiple versions of perl on a Linux Fedora notebook. I have used it with great benefit to run command-line scripts mostly using App::cmd. I now want to move to running web applications written using…
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Switching to the system Perl using perlbrew

First, some background. perlbrew is a tool to assist with the installation of Perl into a non-standard directory (usually under your home directory). It also helps you control which Perl installation is used when executing perl in an interactive…
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dyld: Library not loaded: libperl.dylib Referenced from: perl5.18

Im getting dyld library not found error in my xcode. dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE/libperl.dylib Referenced from: /usr/bin/perl5.18 So I tried to reinstall perl as following.But i got the…
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How can I move PERLBREW_ROOT to another directory?

I use perlbrew to manage my Perl environment. When I installed perlbrew the first time as per the documentation, it installed everything to ~/perl5/perlbrew, which I now find undesirable. The documentation states: The directory ~/perl5/perlbrew…
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Using perlbrew to build a perl with debugging symbols

I'm trying to track down a segmentation fault that I've been able to isolate to just a few lines of code on different versions of Perl. I use perlbrew to manage my various versions for development and testing, but it doesn't build perl with…
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Moving / cloning a perlbrew installed perl plus all the additional cpan modules

I am using perlbrew. I have installed lots of cpan modules under perlbrew perl-5.20.2. Is there a way (or what is the best way) to do a tarball installation of my perl-5.20.2 plus all the CPAN modules that I have installed under perlbrew so that I…
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Why is Perl usually installed without thread support?

Perlbrew installs per default Perl without thread support. Is this just a legacy habit or could a Perl installation with thread support generate problems?
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Running a Perl script from crontab when you use Perlbrew

I have tried the following and find it to work. This is done with a non-privileged user. First find out where your perl command is: # which perl Then check the value of PERL5LIB: # echo $PERL5LIB Then, at the crontab file of the user, do something…
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Does perlbrew work with cygwin?

Searching the web, I have found almost no evidence that perlbrew works on cygwin. The specifics of my current issue are: With the latest install of cygwin (which includes perl 5.14.2), I'm trying to install perl-5.14.2 using the latest perlbrew,…
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Does perlbrew work on Windows?

Using ActiveState 5.8.8 on Windows XP, I would like to install a more recent Perl for testing/migration.
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Perlbrew failed building 5.28.2 with apparently no failures

I'm relatively new to perl and not used to having to build a development tool. I tried to build 5.28.2 and it failed with the following: Test Summary Report ------------------- porting/libperl.t (Wstat:…
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How can I control the Perl version used when submitting grid jobs?

I'm working with SGE (Sun Grid Engine) to submit jobs to a grid. I also use perlbrew to manage my installed Perl versions. I wrote some short sh scripts that I use to run a perl script which requires a specific Perl version (5.12.2), which look…
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