On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 06:53:50PM -0400, valerian wrote: > I wanted to install libbusiness-onlinepayment-authorizenet-perl, but > when I run apt-get, it says: > > Package libbusiness-onlinepayment-authorizenet-perl has no available > version, but exists in the database. > This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and > never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents > of sources.list > > A little while ago, I had already installed that package on another machine > (also running Debian 3.0), but alas the .deb is no longer in > /var/cache/apt/archives, so I can't just copy it to the new machine. :( > > Is there a way to reconstruct a .deb file from an already installed > package?
I haven't tried it myself but look at dpkg-repack. > > On another note, is there an easy way to create .deb files of Perl > modules? I don't like using CPAN very much because it tends to install > files all over the place instead of just /usr/local/lib/site_perl... > > -- Jerome
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