Perlbrew installation at /opt/perl5 problem.

[lifeboatpres]

I was installing perlbrew at /opt/perl5 so multiple people could use the same version of Perl.

I did this installation after I had already installed perlbrew in my home directory (with the idea that I would delete that perlbrew after /opt/perl5 worked.)

This caused /opt/perl5/bin/perlbrew to start with #!/home/lifeboat/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.22.0/bin/perl which was a problem once the perlbrew in /home/lifeboat was deleted. It would have been better if the perlbrew installation script had used #!/usr/bin/perl instead.

[gugod]

@lifeboatpres thanks for the report... could you elaborate a bit more aboutt how it was installed in the first place ?

I'm asking because the installationg process does a bit of work in order to tell where "system perl" is: https://github.com/gugod/App-perlbrew/blob/develop/lib/App/perlbrew.pm#L1643 ... and if it is finding the 'perl' under your perlbrew installation that process is buggy. If it is possible for you to recall the process that would be very helpful to reprodce this bug.

[lifeboatpres]

"thanks for the report... could you elaborate a bit more aboutt how it was installed in the first place ?"

"I did this installation after I had already installed perlbrew in my home directory (with the idea that I would delete that perlbrew after /opt/perl5 worked.)"

So I had first installed perlbrew in my home directory, then decided to install it in /opt for everyone, then removed perlbrew from my home directory, then noticed that perlbrew was connected to the old perlbrew in my home directory, instead of the regular perl that was already installed on the machine. Not a huge bug as now I just install perlbrew in /opt on all machines but it seemed a flaw for perlbrew to not use /usr/bin/perl for the location of Perl.

[gugod]

Thanks!
I think I could work with that description and try to guess the commands that were use to install perlbrew under /opt/ ... something told me that the one you installed under /opt/ is done by cpan command but not curl, for example. But this is just a guest and could be wrong.

[lifeboatpres]

To install in /home/lifeboat, I typed the following as lifeboat: curl -kL http://install.perlbrew.pl | bash

To install in /opt, I typed the following as root: export PERLBREW_ROOT=/opt/perl5
curl -L http://install.perlbrew.pl | bash