It looks to me as though your problem is a result of two things. First, you previously altered your system perl in order to install Locale:gettext. Second, you upgraded your operating system instead of doing a clean install. Here are three different actions, any one of which may get you working again.

1. Enter the command which -a perl and see if your v5.16 Perl shows up. If it does, hard code the path into your startup script, possibly at line 1147 of the file listed in the error. This solution is hackish, may come back to bite you in the future, but if it works might be the fastest way to get those applications going.
2. Use administrator access (e.g. sudo) to install Locale::gettext into your new system perl, v5.18. This also somewhat hackish and not recommended because it could cause side effects with the system or stop working due to upgrades, but probably would work fine.
3. Install your own perl as a non-administrator, install Locale::gettext to that version, and make it the default for your user-id, leaving the system perl alone. This is the best fix of the three.

Perlbrew is a great way to accomplish the latter fix. Follow these steps, and don't type "sudo" in any of them.

• Install perlbrew, initialize it with perlbrew init, and add the "source" line as indicated to the file ~/.bash_profile, creating that file if needed.
• Enter perlbrew available to get a list of perls. Install one of them with perlbrew install <one-of-them>. The current stable version is perl-5.20.1 which would be a good choice.
• Now you can enter perlbrew switch <the-same-one> to make it the first in your path and the default. Type perl -v in a newly opened terminal to verify.
• Enter perlbrew install-cpanm and then cpanm Locale::gettext and with luck the module will install without error and you'll be done.

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