On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:43:12AM +0100, Richard Downer wrote: > 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".
Yes, this is what you do. If that doesn't work try apt-cache search 'name' to ensure that the package doesn't exist and then install it from CPAN I do agree with the OP that the naming convention is far from obvious and caused me a bit of stress for a while. -- http://gnuru.org For the Linux geek in all of us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
