Re: how do i get/install Apache::DB for debian?

[w trillich <will@pinncomp.net>]

Eric Hanchrow wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "w" == w trillich <will@pinncomp.net> writes:
>     w> i'd like to debug some CGI scripts; apparently Apache::DB
>     w> is the ticket--what *.deb package is that a part of?
> 
>     w> # dpkg -S DB.pm
>     w> libnet-dns-perl: /usr/lib/perl5/Net/DNS/RR/AFSDB.pm
>     w> faqomatic: /usr/lib/perl5/FAQ/OMatic/buildSearchDB.pm
> 
>     w> well _that_ didn't help...
> 
> Here's how I figure out which package a file lives in:
> 
>   08:36:15 [offby1]$ zcat ~/Contents-i386.gz | egrep DB\.pm
>   ./usr/lib/perl5/FreeDB/FreeDB.pm            interpreters/libfreedb-perl
>   ./usr/lib/perl5/Net/DNS/RR/AFSDB.pm         interpreters/libnet-dns-perl
>   ./usr/lib/roxen/etc/modules/PDB.pmod        web/roxen
>   usr/lib/perl5/ADB.pm                        web/onshore-timesheet
>   usr/lib/perl5/FAQ/OMatic/buildSearchDB.pm   web/faqomatic
> 
> This has one advantage over your method: it searches *all* packages,
> not just the ones that happen to be installed at the moment.
> (~/Contents-i386.gz is, of course, a symbolic link to the file of the
> same name that comes with all Debian distributions; I keep mine
> up-to-date from a Debian mirror of the potato distribution)

well that sounds promising!
# locate Contents
/usr/doc/texmf/help/Catalogue/00Contents
/usr/doc/texmf/latex/latex2e-html/Table_of_Contents.html
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/cbb/docs/cbb-man/icons/00Contents

# \ls -lF /var/cache/apt
total 2430
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root        21504 May  9 21:27 archives/
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1227418 May  9 21:39 pkgcache.bin
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1225453 May  9 20:53 srcpkgcache.bin

maybe it's on my CD-set, but that's bound to be obsolete an hour
after it's been written...

so now i go look at debian.org to see if i can download a file
called 'Contents-i386.gz'...

[hold on--back to the original inquiry: your search didn't seem
to turn up the Apache/DB.pm file, either! aaugh!]