Second Perl Install Using Libraries from System Perl

MikeDacre has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Everyone,

I am having a really silly problem with Perl. I have a CentOS 6.2 system with perl 5.10.1 installed by default. I want to install the latest, 5.16.2. I have tried a number of different approaches: running ./Configure with all defaults, installing to /usr/local, installing to /opt/perl, and installing with perlbrew (using perlbrew install perl-5.16.2). All seem to work fine, but then I get problems when I run perl or cpan. It looks like the new perl is linking to the libraries of the old perl. I get errors like this one:

/root/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.2/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: 
+/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Compress/Raw/Zlib/Zlib.so: undefine
+d symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr
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Removing Zlib doesn't help, I just get an error from a different shared library. Any idea what I can do to prevent this cross linking?

Thank you!

Mike

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Re: Second Perl Install Using Libraries from System Perl by tobyink (Canon) on Dec 06, 2012 at 07:54 UTC
I'd suggest deleting your 5.16, then install perlbrew onto your system Perl. Perlbrew can be used to install as many other Perls as you like quite easily. `perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'`	[reply]
Re^2: Second Perl Install Using Libraries from System Perl by Shuraski (Scribe) on Dec 09, 2012 at 03:02 UTC
Yes, please use perlbrew. It is perfect for exactly your situation.	[reply]