Name:
App::perlbrew - Manage perl installations in your $HOME
Synopsis:
# Installation
curl -L 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 5.18.2
perlbrew install perl-5.8.1
perlbrew install perl-5.19.9
# See what were installed
perlbrew list
# Swith to an installation and set it as default
perlbrew switch perl-5.18.2
# 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 $]'
Description:
perlbrew is a program to automate the building and installation of perl
in an easy way. It provides multiple isolated perl environments, and a
mechanism for you to switch between them.
Everything are installed unter "~/perl5/perlbrew". You then need to
include a bashrc/cshrc provided by perlbrew to tweak the PATH for you.
You then can benefit from not having to run "sudo" commands to install
cpan modules because those are installed inside your "HOME" too.
For the documentation of perlbrew usage see perlbrew command on MetaCPAN
, or by running "perlbrew help", or by visiting
perlbrew's official website . The following
documentation features the API of "App::perlbrew" module, and may not be
remotely close to what your want to read.
Installation:
It is the simplest to use the perlbrew installer, just paste this
statement to your terminal:
curl -L http://install.perlbrew.pl | bash
Or this one, if you have "fetch" (default on FreeBSD):
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.
The installed perlbrew command is a standalone executable that can be
run with system perl. The minimum system perl version requirement is
5.8.0, which should be good enough for most of the OSes these days.
A fat-packed version of patchperl is also installed to
"~/perl5/perlbrew/bin", which is required to build old perls.
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:
export PERLBREW_ROOT=/opt/perl5
curl -L http://install.perlbrew.pl | bash
As a result, different users on the same machine can all share the same
perlbrew root directory (although only original user that made the
installation would have the permission to perform perl installations.)
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.
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.
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.
Methods:
(Str) current_perl
Return the "current perl" object attribute string, or, if absent,
the value of "PERLBREW_PERL" environment variable.
(Str) current_perl (Str)
Set the "current_perl" object attribute to the given value.
Project Development:
perlbrew project uses github
and RT
for issue
tracking. Issues sent to these two systems will eventually be reviewed
and handled.
See for a list of
project contributors.
Configuration:
PERLBREW_ROOT
By default, perlbrew builds and installs perls into
"$ENV{HOME}/perl5/perlbrew" directory. To use a different directory,
set this environment variable in your "bashrc" to the directory in
your shell RC before sourcing perlbrew's RC.
It is possible to share one perlbrew root with multiple user account
on the same machine. Therefore people do not have to install the
same version of perl over an over. Let's say "/opt/perl5" is the
directory we want to share. All users should be able append this
snippet to their bashrc to make it effective:
export PERLBREW_ROOT=/opt/perl5
source ${PERLBREW_ROOT}/etc/bashrc
After doing so, everyone's PATH should include "/opt/perl5/bin" and
"/opt/perl5/perls/${PERLBREW_PERL}/bin". Each user can invoke
"perlbrew switch" and "perlbrew use" to independently switch to
different perl environment of their choice. However, only the user
with write permission to $PERLBREW_ROOT may install CPAN modules.
This is both good and bad depending on the working convention of
your team.
If you wish to install CPAN modules only for yourself, you should
use the "lib" command to construct a personal local::lib
environment. local::lib environments are personal, and are not
shared between different users. For more detail, read "perlbrew help
lib" and the documentation of local::lib.
If you want even a cooler module isolation and wish to install CPAN
modules used for just one project, you should use carton for this
purpose.
It is also possible to set this variable before installing perlbrew
to make perlbrew install itself under the given PERLBREW_ROOT:
export PERLBREW_ROOT=/opt/perl5
curl -kL http://install.perlbrew.pl | bash
After doing this, the perlbrew executable is installed as
"/opt/perl5/bin/perlbrew"
PERLBREW_HOME
By default, perlbrew stores per-user setting to
"$ENV{HOME}/.perlbrew" directory. To use a different directory, set
this environment variable in your shell RC before sourcing
perlbrew's RC.
In some cases, say, your home directory is on NFS and shared across
multiple machines, you may wish to have several different perlbrew
setting per-machine. To do so, you can use the "PERLBREW_HOME"
environment variable to tell perlbrew where to look for the
initialization file. Here's a brief bash snippet for the given
scenario.
if [ "$(hostname)" == "machine-a" ]; then
export PERLBREW_HOME=~/.perlbrew-a
elif [ "$(hostname)" == "machine-b" ]; then
export PERLBREW_HOME=~/.perlbrew-b
fi
source ~/perl5/perlbrew/etc/bashrc
PERLBREW_CONFIGURE_FLAGS
This environment variable specify the list of command like flags to
pass through to 'sh Configure'. By default it is '-de'.
PERLBREW_CPAN_MIRROR
The CPAN mirror url of your choice.
Author:
Kang-min Liu ""
Copyright:
Copyright (c) 2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015 Kang-min Liu
"".
Licence:
The MIT License
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