One caveat from experience (and if you search through my post history I'm probably a broken record about this):

Never use the OS' perl and package manager if you don't have 100% control over the OS. With today's container solutions that's less of an issue (since you're more likely to have full control over the image inside), but if you're still on bare metal and at the whim of (say) a central IT department you're going to get bitten at some point. They're going to upgrade your perl and/or packages underneath your application without your knowledge or consent at some point (Murphy sez) and then you're going to be the unfortunate schmuck on the hook to unbreak what they've just broked (because you didn't plan on Foo::Bar suddenly throwing an error because there was an upstream bug your existing code exercised but wasn't handling that's now fixed).

Always roll and maintain your own application install somewhere you control and use that instead of /usr/bin/perl or whatever. Make sure to shebang everything #!/usr/bin/env perl rather than an explicit path then manage PATH to find what to run (that also allows you to test and migrate to a new version without editing all your scripts).

The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie.

In reply to Re^2: Replicate Perl setup by Fletch
in thread Replicate Perl setup by nikosv

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