Re: Obscure Perl modules
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 00:11:11 +0200, Leif B. Kristensen wrote:
> However, I wonder if there is any correspondence between a package name
> such as it appears on say, CPAN, and the Debian package names?
Most Perl packages in Debian are named based upon the CPAN package name.
Some examples:
DBD::Pg -> libdbd-pg-perl
Digest::MD5 -> libdigest-md5-perl
and so on.
There are some exceptions, but in general for a CPAN package X::Y you can
try "apt-get install libx-y-perl".
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rd.
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