After the recent problems with Bash::Completion and Bash::Completion::Plugins::perlbrew on my system I realized that maybe the problem I was having is in the actual default operating system install of Perl. To investigate this problem I did a fresh install of openSUSE 11.4 64-bit into a VirtualBox. After running the security updates I installed Task::CPAN::Reporter to pull in what I needed and configured cpan to send reports in. I used the metabase_id.json I had already generated for my development machine as it is recommended to…

Edit Notice: I edited this post because of a very valid point made in brian's comment below.

I use perlbrew for managing my Perl installs as I am sure many people do. I was searching around metacpan for helper modules for perlbrew and found Bash::Completion::Plugins::perlbrew . I think this might be useful so I install it,

cpan Bash::Completion::Plugins::perlbrew 

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