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Hi Cow1337killr,

Disclaimer: Current berrybrew maintainer here.

"Where do I go on the Internet to download the berrybrew.zip file?"

Per the Installation portion of the documentation, you get it from here (this is the master cut... it'll always be up-to-date). You then want to compare that fetch against the SHA-1 sum that is posted next to the download link in the Installation section I mentioned above.

When you download the archive (zip) file, you want to extract it to anywhere on your system, except for C:\berrybrew. We hijack that directory for internal purposes (in the future, this won't be forced. In fact, it can be changed... see here). After you've extracted the file, change into that directory, and then initialize berrybrew:

cd berrybrew
bin\berrybrew.exe config

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You need to close your cmd window here, as Windows doesn't update its environment variables live-time in the way it is needed here. Then, open a new one.

Then:

berrybrew install 5.24.1_64
berrybrew switch 5.24.1_64

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Kill current cmd window, open a new one, and:

perl -v

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Now you can confirm you're operating on the proper version you selected, and you can go ahead and create stuff, and when executed, it'll run on the proper Perl installation.

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Re^2: berrybrew installation
by Cow1337killr (Monk) on Feb 12, 2017 at 03:26 UTC
    O.K. Thank you. I am going to try it now.

    Strawberry Perl 5.24.1.1 (32bit) (i.e., 5.24.1_32) is not in the list of available Strawberry Perl versions.

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      Could you kindly provide the command you specified that generated that error message?

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        Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

(I moved berrybrew.zip to C:\berrybrew-programs and extracted it using
+ 7-Zip. )

(I had to create the berrybrew directory myself.)

C:\Documents and Settings\User1\My Documents>cd C:\berrybrew\

C:\berrybrew>C:\berrybrew-programs\berrybrew\bin\berrybrew.exe config

This is berrybrew, version
1.09

Would you like to add berrybrew to PATH? y/n [n]



C:\berrybrew>

=================================== New cmd window ===================
+=================

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\User1\My Documents>cd "C:\berrybrew-programs
+\berrybrew\bin\"

C:\berrybrew-programs\berrybrew\bin>berrybrew available

The following Strawberry Perls are available:

        5.24.0_64
        5.24.0_64_PDL
        5.24.0_32
        5.22.2_64
        5.22.2_64_PDL
        5.22.2_32
        5.22.1_64
        5.22.1_32
        5.20.3_64
        5.20.3_64_PDL
        5.20.3_32
        5.20.3_32_PDL
        5.18.4_64
        5.18.4_32
        5.16.3_64
        5.16.3_32
        5.14.4_64
        5.14.4_32
        5.12.3_32
        5.10.1_32

* Currently using


C:\berrybrew-programs\berrybrew\bin>berrybrew install 5.24.1_32

Unknown version of Perl

Use the available command to see what versions of Strawberry Perl are 
+available


C:\berrybrew-programs\berrybrew\bin>berrybrew install 5.24.0_32
Downloading http://strawberryperl.com/download/5.24.0.1/strawberry-per
+l-5.24.0.1-32bit-portable.zip to C:\berrybrew\temp\str
awberry-perl-5.24.0.1-32bit-portable.zip
Confirming checksum ...
Extracting C:\berrybrew\temp\strawberry-perl-5.24.0.1-32bit-portable.z
+ip

The following Strawberry Perls are available:

        5.24.0_64
        5.24.0_64_PDL
        5.24.0_32       [installed]
        5.22.2_64
        5.22.2_64_PDL
        5.22.2_32
        5.22.1_64
        5.22.1_32
        5.20.3_64
        5.20.3_64_PDL
        5.20.3_32
        5.20.3_32_PDL
        5.18.4_64
        5.18.4_32
        5.16.3_64
        5.16.3_32
        5.14.4_64
        5.14.4_32
        5.12.3_32
        5.10.1_32

* Currently using


C:\berrybrew-programs\berrybrew\bin>berrybrew switch 5.24.0_32
Switched to 5.24.0_32, start a new terminal to use it.

C:\berrybrew-programs\berrybrew\bin>

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Re^2: berrybrew installation
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 01, 2017 at 17:29 UTC

    Hi stevieb,

    if I already have a portable Strawberry Perl und install berrybrew - can I just move portable Perl to C:\berrybrew or I have to install this version again under berrybrew?

    Thank you!

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      If you have version 1.13+, you can copy it in, and use berrybrew register to register it. If you don't have that version, copy the directory, then edit the data/perls_custom.json file in the berrybrew installation directory, and make it look something like (where ver: is the actual version number as downloaded):

      [
  {
    "name": "whatever_you_want",
    "url": "",
    "file": "",
    "csum": "",
    "ver": "5.22.3"
  }
]

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      If you have existing custom perls, then that needs to be appended to the others. This new version will then be considered a legit "custom" version.

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        Thank you very much! Do not have berrybrew yet, so will surely have a newest version of it :-) so register should work. Have a lot of CPAN modules installed in my working version (just Strawberry Perl, no hacks - this is what you mean by custom perl, right?), do not want to repeat the installation if it can be avoided.

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