Information about the package, perlbrew, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The perlbrew package is designed for, Manage perl installations in your $HOME.
Package Name:
perlbrew
Summary:
Manage perl installations in your $HOME
Description:
perlbrew is a program to automate the building and installation of perl in the users HOME. At the moment, it installs everything to ~/perl5/perlbrew, and requires you to tweak your PATH by including a bashrc/cshrc file it provides. You then can benefit from not having to run 'sudo' commands to install cpan modules because those are installed inside your HOME too. It's almost like an isolated perl environments.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
0.28
Release:
1.el6
Size:
34 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
MIT
Control the perlbrew package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install perlbrew
This command will install perlbrew on the server.
yum remove perlbrew
This command will un-install perlbrew on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perlbrew, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove perlbrew
This command will un-install perlbrew on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove perlbrew when using the -y flag.
yum update perlbrew
This command will update perlbrew to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perlbrew, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update perlbrew
This command will update perlbrew to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove perlbrew when using the -y flag.
yum info perlbrew
This command will show you core information about the perlbrew package.
yum deplist perlbrew
This command will show you the dependencies for perlbrew. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update perlbrew
This command will check if there is an update waiting on perlbrew. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.