[wplug] perl module --> debian package

John Harrold jmh17 at pitt.edu
Tue Jul 20 14:25:06 EDT 2004


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.

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