Perl comes with a built-in debugger that can be invoked by passing the -d flag to perl.
The default Term::ReadLine that comes with Perl does not provide history (pressing the up arrow) in the debugger.
You need to install Term::ReadLine::Gnu for that.
Probably the best way to install a Perl module is to use cpanm.
cpanm Term::ReadLine::Gnu
If the above does not work check how to install Term::ReadLine::Gnu.
