perlbrew command not found

Question

I installed perlbrew on Linux backtrack on my virtual machine. and I have perl 5.10.1 installed on my backtrack. but when I write perlbrew command in the terminal it shows the following message: perlbrew: command not found

What is wrong with my system?

Answer 1

When you installed perlbrew, you were instructed to add something like

source ~/perl5/perlbrew/etc/bashrc

to your shell startup script (.bashrc). It appears that you did not do this, or that you did not restart your shell after doing this.

Answer 2

The standard sudo apt install perlbrew on a fresh Ubuntu18 install appears to be borken (and Ubuntu20 too if my memory isn't malfunctioning). And has been so for some time. I couldn't get it to work even if I appended source ~/perl5/perlbrew/etc/bashrc to ~/.bash_profile and/or ~/.bashrc and started a new bash. And also did perlbrew init.

What eventually worked for me is curl -L https://install.perlbrew.pl | bash taken from https://perlbrew.pl/ After this which perlbrew shows the correct /home/me/perl5/perlbrew/bin/perlbrew instead of /usr/bin/perlbrew. And now I can see the whole list of available perl5 versions with perlbrew available.