Perl - Use Homebrew Version

[Jayson Wonder]

I am pretty new to MacOS and Homebrew. I understand that there is a system version of Perl (5.30) installed and this should be avoided. So I decided to install the latest version (5.36) using brew install perl. It installed successfully. When I run perl -v it shows me the system version 5.30 only. How do I make the latest version the default? I do not want to mess up the system version I want to use the latest for my own learning and developement. Any advice as to how to do this?

I am using VS Code as my primary IDE.

Thanks,

 

[bogdanw]

Why use homebrew when you can install it from source?
https://www.cpan.org/src/README.html

 

[Jayson Wonder]

Well it is already installed now and if I am using Homebrew as a package manager, then it makes sense to use it to install. I also was fearful of breaking the system installed version. Checking the internet most people recommended not suing the system version.

At this point I am more concerned with how to make this already installed newer version my default, it is possible? I am assuming it a PATH issues bit again, do not want to break any system dependencies on the older 5.30 version included with OS Ventura.

 

[haralds]

You need to make sure that in your path setup, the home brew directories are searched first.

If you are on AppleSilicon, it would be something like:

export PATH=/opt/homebrew/bin:/opt/homebrew/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH