G'day misterperl,

You may find it's easier to use Perlbrew.

This won't mess with the system Perl. (See ++choroba's comments re that.) 

$ /usr/bin/perl -v

This is perl 5, version 32, subversion 1 (v5.32.1) built for x86_64-cy
+gwin-threads-multi
(with 6 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

...

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You can have multiple versions of Perl installed. 

$ perlbrew list
 * perl-5.34.0
   perl-5.33.5
   perl-5.32.0
   perl-5.30.0

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You can very easily switch between the different Perl versions you have installed. 

$ which perl
/home/ken/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.34.0/bin/perl

$ perlbrew switch perl-5.32.0

$ which perl
/home/ken/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.32.0/bin/perl

$ perlbrew switch perl-5.34.0

$ which perl
/home/ken/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.34.0/bin/perl

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If you start your scripts with the shebang 

#!/usr/bin/env perl

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they will run using the current (`which perl`) version. This can be very useful when troubleshooting why a script worked successfully under one Perl version but not another: just run the script; switch version; run the script again.

Installation of Perlbrew is straightforward; as is the installation of Perl versions. There's no need to go through the laborious effort of installing Perl by hand; there's no need to fiddle with $PATH; there's no need to change shebang lines.

I've used Perlbrew on many different platforms for many years (1 to 2 decades) and can highly recommend it. Many other monks also use Perlbrew so, if you run into difficulties, there's plenty of help available.

— Ken

In reply to Re: "Installed" Perl 5.34 , sort of by kcott
in thread "Installed" Perl 5.34 , sort of by misterperl

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