How can I install specialized environments for different Perl applications?

Question

Is there anything equivalent or close in terms of functionality to Python\'s virtualenv, but for Perl?

I\'ve done some development in Python and a possibility of having

Answer 1

I am not sure whether this is the same as that virtualenv thing you are talking about, but have a look for the @INC special variable in the perlvar manpage.

Answer 2

I've used schroot for this purpose. It is a bit heavier than virtualenv but you can be sure that nothing will leak in that shouldn't.

Schroot manages a chroot environment for you, but mounts your home directory in the chroot so it appears like a normal shell session, just using the binaries and libraries in the chroot.

I think it may be debian/ubuntu only though.

After setting up the schroot, your script above would look like

schroot -c my_perl_dev
wget ...

See http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/566 for an interesting article about it