Perlbrew

perlbrew is a manager for sudo-free, user-level perl installations.

Installation

cd ~/tmp
wget --no-check-certificate https://raw.github.com/gugod/App-perlbrew/master/perlbrew
perl perlbrew self-install
cat 'source ~/perl5/perlbrew/etc/bashrc' >> ~/.bashrc # restart bash for this to take effect

At this point, you should also install patchperl, but the default command to do this,

perl perlbrew install-patchperl

failed for me because of a certificate issue. A workaround is to get it directly:

curl -kL https://raw.github.com/gugod/patchperl-packing/master/patchperl > ~/perl5/perlbrew/bin/patchperl
chmod +x ~/perl5/perlbrew/bin/patchperl

Alternatively, perlbrew can be patched to add the -k option to ignore cert issues. However, the program is minified, so this is currently more straightforward.

Add a new perl install

Do this in a screen session. It is a long-running process that you won't want interrupted by connectivity problems.

perlbrew install --as $your_install_name stable

• The --as switch is optional. Omitting it causes the version to be used instead of a name when managing.
• The stable specifier may be replaced with any version number or blead.
• Other options are available.

This is a full perl install process and will take a substantial about of time. You will be given a tail -f command to follow the log if desired.

I believe it is supposed to work to install the same version twice as long as the names are different. However, don't try to perform the actual installs simultaneously; wait for one to finish before starting the next.

Image::Magick

One process that is claimed to work for installing Image::Magick is given on perltricks.com.

The given process has a new IM library installed under ~/local. I'm likely to modify it to something like ~/opt/ImageMagick-VERSION-NAME. This should be documented here.

Proposed install script (has not been tested yet!):

IM=ImageMagick-6.8.9-0
IM_DOWNLOADS="http://www.imagemagick.org/download"
OPT="$HOME/opt"
FONT_PATH="$HOME/.fonts"
PB_NAME="your perlbrew install name"
PB_DIR="$PERLBREW_ROOT/perls/$PB_NAME"
PB_PERL="$PB_DIR/bin/perl"
PB_CORE="$PB_DIR"/lib/5.*.*/*/CORE
PREFIX="$OPT/$IM-$PB_NAME"

WITHOUT_THREADS=`"$PB_PERL" -MConfig -E '$Config{useithreads} or say "--without-threads"'`

wget "$IM_DOWNLOADS/$IM.tar.xz" &&
tar xJvf "$IM.tar.xz" &&
cd "$IM" &&
LDFLAGS=-L"$PB_CORE" \
	./configure \
		--prefix "$PREFIX" \
		--with-perl="$PB_PERL" \
		--enable-shared \
		$WITHOUT_THREADS \ 
		--with-fontpath="$FONT_PATH" \
		--with-rsvg \
		&&
read -p "Press enter to make and install." &&
make install