dancingfrog/fermenter

System-wide installation of Perl 5.18.2, perlbrew and standard modules to /usr/local/perl in one shot.

fermenter

Modernize your Perl! System-wide installation of Perl 5.20.2, perlbrew and recommended modules to /usr/local/perl on various Linux distributions in one shot. Root required. Handle with care.

# install Perl 5.20.2 and recommended modules via perlbrew to /usr/local/perl.
curl https://raw.github.com/vifo/fermenter/master/fermenter.sh | bash

Motivation

perlbrew is great for setting up and managing multiple, isolated Perl installations. Yet, even with perlbrew, you still have to care yourself for possible build dependencies, adjust compiler flags, update Perl modules after installation. cleanup and so on.

This is, where fermenter kicks in. It simplifies the installation of Perl via perlbrew by providing sensible defaults, adjusting compiler flags, handling build dependencies and finally building and installing Perl including recommended modules.

fermenter?

perlbrew => brew => brewing => fermentation => fermenter for the curious.

Supported/tested distributions

• Linux Mint 15 (Olivia)
• Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS (Lucid Lynx)
• and more.

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Documentation

Detailed docs currently only available as source code comments (if any).

fermenter is great, but I want to...

• change the installation directory

  $ FERMENTER_ROOT=/usr/local/fermenter \
      curl https://raw.github.com/vifo/fermenter/master/fermenter.sh | bash

Links

• perlbrew Homepage
• App::perlbrew on metacpan

Copyright and license

Copyright 2014, Victor Foitzik. perlbrew-fermenter is released under the MIT license. Please refer to the license file for details.