Perl versions older than 5.14 do not support the local installation of Perl modules natively. This module allows for local installation of Perl modules on Mac OS X in ~/Library/Perl/5.12 by altering the environment.

Usage

For Perl versions older than 5.14, install local::lib.

curl -L -C - -O http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/A/AP/APEIRON/local-lib-1.008004.tar.gz
tar xvf local-lib-1.008004.tar.gz
cd local-lib-1.008004
perl Makefile.PL --bootstrap=$HOME/Library/Perl/5.12
make && make test && make install

Install cpanminus:

curl -L http://cpanmin.us | perl - --self-upgrade

Perlbrew

An alternative to the above is to use Perlbrew, which allows for the management of multiple, isolated Perl installations in the home directory.

Aliases

General

pe executes a one line program in a loop (perl -wlne).
pd looks up Perl documentation (perldoc).

Perlbrew

pb manages Perl environments.
pba lists available Perl versions.
pbi installs a Perl version.
pbl lists installed Perl versions.
pbo temporarily turns off Perlbrew.
pbO turns off Perlbrew.
pbs switches to a Perl version.
pbu uninstalls a Perl version.
pbx temporarily sets the Perl version to use.

Functions

prep provides a grep-like pattern search.
psub provides a sed-like pattern substitution.

Authors

The authors of this module should be contacted via the issue tracker.

Sorin Ionescu