On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 12:12 -0400, John Harrold 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. 1. apt-get install dh-make-perl 2. man dh-make-perl 3. Do the magic that exists within dh-make-perl 4. ... 5. ... PROFIT! Have loads of fun. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net The technology that is Stronger, better, faster: Linux
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