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Using Perl on Savio

This document describes how to use Perl on the Savio high-performance computing cluster at the University of California, Berkeley.

Running Perl

Unlike most software on Savio, to use Perl, you do not need to load a module. Just call perl from the shell prompt.

Installing Perl modules

You can install Perl modules as a non-root user in your home directory using CPAN as follows.

First check to see if you already have cpanm installed.

which cpanm

If cpanm is installed, you should see this result:

~/perl5/bin/cpanm

If cpanm is installed you can install Perl modules like this (here installing the MatrixReal module as an example):

cpanm Math::MatrixReal

If cpanm is not installed, you'll see this and you'll need to install it as shown below.

/usr/bin/which: no cpanm...

If you don't already have cpanm, you can install it as follows:

# Commands from: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2980297/how-can-i-use-cpan-as-a-non-root-user)
wget -O- http://cpanmin.us | perl - -l ~/perl5 App::cpanminus local::lib
eval `perl -I ~/perl5/lib/perl5 -Mlocal::lib`
echo 'eval `perl -I ~/perl5/lib/perl5 -Mlocal::lib`' >> ~/.profile
echo 'export MANPATH=$HOME/perl5/man:$MANPATH' >> ~/.profile