curl: transfer closing when trying to install perlbrew - perl

Question

I'm trying to install perlbrew in my mac OSX and this error keeps popping in my terminal, not really sure what this means
Download the latest perlbrew
curl: (18) transfer closed with ###### bytes remaining to read
I understand vaguely that this error is related to poor network service, am I right?
Can anyone help me how to install perlbrew offline and how to install modules after perlbrew is done!
Your help is appreciated

Answer 1

I'm trying to install perlbrew in my mac OSX
There are lots of OSX versions. Can you narrow it down a bit?
I understand vaguely that this error is related to poor network
service, am I right?
If the command you issued was:
$ \curl -L http://install.perlbrew.pl | bash
then that tells a program called curl to download the file install.perlbrew.pl from the internet, then execute the file with a program called bash. You can view that file by entering the url specified in the command in your browser:
http://install.perlbrew.pl
As you can see, the file is very short.
The error means that for some reason curl couldn't download the entirety of a file it was trying to download. That could be because the server(where the file resides) dropped your connection, or the internet connection on your side was disrupted.
Can anyone help me how to install perlbrew offline
You could go to the url and copy the text and paste it into a local file called, say, install_perlbrew.pl. Then you could execute that file offline like this:
$ bash install_perlbrew.pl
That file is a program and when you execute the program with bash, the program uses curl yet again to retrieve another file, namely perlbrew, from the internet. You could also copy the perlbrew file to your computer and modify the install script to use the local perlbrew file, but then when you execute the perlbrew file, it also uses curl to retrieve even more files from the internet, and so on and so on.
So unless you know bash scripting and you can modify the install script to use all local files, and you have the patience to track down all the files required and copy them to local files, you are not going to be able to install perlbrew offline.
Can anyone help me how to ... install modules after perlbrew is done!
If the module name is File::Monitor, you would install it like this:
$ cpan File::Monitor
If it's your first time using the cpan command, you will see this:
$ cpan File::Monitor
CPAN.pm requires configuration, but most of it can be done automatically.
If you answer 'no' below, you will enter an interactive dialog for each
configuration option instead.
Would you like to configure as much as possible automatically? [yes]
Hit return to use the default answer (which is specified in brackets). After cpan automatically configures itself, it will install the module, and if everything went okay with the installation you will see something like this:
...
...
ANDYA/File-Monitor-1.00.tar.gz
./Build install -- OK
$
Response to comments:
Preamble: Your system has perl installed on it, however it is out of date. But, your system needs perl to perform certain tasks, so you should NEVER delete or update the system perl. In fact, you should leave the system perl alone, so that you don't screw it up and render your OS inoperable. perlbrew to the rescue.
In your Applications folder, look for a Utilities folder, and inside the Utilities folder find Terminal.app. Click on Terminal.app to launch a terminal window.
Here are the steps for installing and using perlbrew:
1) Install perlbrew:
~$ \curl -L http://install.perlbrew.pl | bash
2) Install a perl with perlbrew:
~$ perlbrew install perl-5.23.6
Prior to installing a perl, you can see what versions of perl are available by doing this:
~$ perlbrew available
perl-5.23.6
perl-5.22.1
perl-5.20.3
perl-5.18.4
perl-5.16.3
...
...
Pick whatever version of perl you want to install and specify it in the install command above.
3) Tell perlbrew which perl version to use. Because you will only have one version of perl installed at this point, write:
~$ perlbrew switch perl-5.23.6
perlbrew allows you to install multiple versions of perl, so if you have multiple versions of perl installed, and you want to switch to another version, you can do:
~$ perlbrew list
perl-5.23.6
*perl-5.20.2
perl-5.16.3
~$ perlbrew use perl-5.16.3
~$ perlbrew list
perl-5.23.6
perl-5.20.2
*perl-5.16.3
The asterisk lets you know which version of perl you are currently using.
4) Install modules in the current version of perl:
~$ cpan Path::Class !!DO NOT EVER USE SUDO!!
5) To see a list of all the modules installed in the current perl:
~$ perlbrew list-modules
CPAN::Meta
Date::Parse
File::Monitor
HTTP::CookieJar
HTTP::Date
...
...
...
6) perlbrew has a lot of other commands, so if you need to do something else, try searching through the output of:
~$ perlbrew --help