Perl 5 is a highly capable, feature-rich programming language.

• Version: 5.22.3
• Updated: February, 2017
• Link: https://www.perl.org/

See which versions of perl are available:

$ module avail perl

Load perl

$ module load perl/5.22.3

Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

$ cd /tmp
$ wget http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.22.3.tar.gz
$ tar -xvf perl-5.22.3.tar.gz
$ cd perl-5.22.3
$ sudo mkdir -p /export/apps/perl/5.22.3/
$ sudo chown -R joguya:joguya /export/apps/perl/5.22.3/
$ scl enable devtoolset-2 bash
$ ./Configure -des -Dprefix=/export/apps/perl/5.22.3/
$ make test
$ make install
$ sudo chown -R root:root /export/apps/perl/5.22.3/