perlbrew is a program to automate the building and installation of perl in the users HOME. By default, it installs everything to $ENV{HOME}/perl5/perlbrew, and requires you to tweak your PATH by including a bashrc/cshrc file it provides. You then can benefit from not having to run 'sudo' commands to install cpan modules because those are installed inside your HOME too. It's a completely separate perl environment. WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/App-perlbrew/