On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 02:06:30PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> 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.
>
Hi Greg,
would it be possible for someone with say dh-make-perl and perl -MCPAN -eshell
and make some script-foo that would be able to interface with CPAN and
whip up any not currently avaible perl module?
=Kev
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