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perlbrew — Manage Perl installations in the home directory. See also: `asdf`. More information: <https://github

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Problem

How to use the perlbrew command: Manage Perl installations in the home directory. See also: asdf. More information: <https://github.com/gugod/App-perlbrew>.

Solution

perlbrew — Manage Perl installations in the home directory. See also: asdf. More information: <https://github.com/gugod/App-perlbrew>.

Initialize a perlbrew environment:

perlbrew init

List available Perl versions:

perlbrew available

Install/uninstall a Perl version:

perlbrew {{install|uninstall}} {{version}}

List perl installations:

perlbrew list

Switch to an installation and set it as default:

perlbrew switch perl-{{version}}

Use the system Perl again:

perlbrew off

List installed CPAN modules for the installation in use:

perlbrew list-modules

Clone CPAN modules from one installation to another:

perlbrew clone-modules {{source_installation}} {{destination_installation}}

Code Snippets

Initialize a `perlbrew` environment

perlbrew init

List available Perl versions

perlbrew available

Install/uninstall a Perl version

perlbrew {{install|uninstall}} {{version}}

List perl installations

perlbrew list

Switch to an installation and set it as default

perlbrew switch perl-{{version}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/perlbrew

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