On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 12:12:11 -0400 John Harrold <jmh17@pitt.edu> wrote: > Hey, > > I was trying to run a perl script on a Debian box and it kept > complaining that I didn't have the right perl module installed (in > this case the Date::Format module). Typically typically I can look > through the available packages with 'apt-cache search' and find the > correct debian package to install. In this case the name of the > package was'libtimedate-perl' --- which isnt obvious given all of the > other packages with 'date' in them. So I was wondering if there was > something out there that maps perl modules to the Debian package that > provides them. Perhaps I just need to be more creative when using > apt-cache. I agree it can be a little confusing at times. A quick search on packages.debian.org for "date::format" returned the following: usr/share/man/man3/Date::Format.3pm.gz - interpreters/libtimedate-perl HTH, Jacob -- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Random .signature #47: Windows, the yo-yo operating system; it goes up... it goes down... it goes up...
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