Re: Installing CPAN modules by Package Name

[Alex Muntada <alexm@alexm.org>]

+ Maximilian Gass <mxey@cloudconnected.org>:

>>     apt-get install $(apt-file search -l Foo::Bar)
>
> That won't be very accurate. For example, searching for DBIx::Class
> would not only install libdbix-class-perl but also
> libdbix-class-schema-loader-perl and several others.

Even though i find apt-file extremely useful on many cases
(works for any kind of package, not only for Perl), i agree it
is far from perfect. dh-make-perl is the best answer for Perl.

Thanks!

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Alex Muntada <alexm@alexm.org>
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