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I'm attempting to install perlbrew via

\curl -L https://install.perlbrew.pl | bash

as suggested from https://perlbrew.pl

However, I get these errors

print() on closed filehandle $fh at perlbrew.Yyb5zU line 1569.
print() on closed filehandle $fh at perlbrew.Yyb5zU line 1569.
print() on closed filehandle $fh at perlbrew.Yyb5zU line 1569.

There are so many of those error lines, I can't even see anything else before them.

Fail to create /usr/local/perlbrew/etc/bashrc. Please check the permission of /usr/local/perlbrew/etc and try `perlbrew init` again. at perlbrew.Yyb5zU line 1462

I manually created directories in /usr/local/perlbrew, but this isn't a good idea, and it didn't fix the problem.

this is a redHat system, so I can't install via yum either.

How can I successfully install perlbrew on this redHat server?

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  • What shell are you using? Try to set SHELL explicitly like this: curl -L https://install.perlbrew.pl | SHELL=/bin/bash bash.
    – Håkon Hægland
    Commented May 19, 2022 at 15:15
  • @HåkonHægland I am using bash, the command that you wrote did not work :(
    – con
    Commented May 19, 2022 at 15:16
  • No idea why, but the errors are the result of this failing: my $executable = $0; open my $fh, "<", $executable;
    – ikegami
    Commented May 19, 2022 at 16:32
  • Maybe there's something special about the directory used during the installation. You could try ( export TMPDIR="$HOME/tmp"; mkdir -p "$TMPDIR"; \curl -L https://install.perlbrew.pl | bash )
    – ikegami
    Commented May 19, 2022 at 16:37
  • I dont think it is normal for perlbrew to touch files in system directories like /usr/local/. I remember that it normally works in ~/perl5/.
    – pii_ke
    Commented May 19, 2022 at 17:09

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The installation page lists an alternate installation method which worked for me:

sudo cpan App::perlbrew
perlbrew init
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