On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 01:45:50AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
> I wondered if there is a perferred way to handle aquiring perl
> modules?
>
> The CPAN interface shell that gets installed with perl provides a
> nifty way to search, download, install most of what is on CPAN and
> can be enhanced with WAIT (a WAIS based search interface)
>
> All this is pretty easy to use and takes care of some of the work of
> finding and applying perl modules and packages.
>
> Seems like this would interfere to some extent with apt-get concepts of
> how to do things.
aside from dh-make-perl, which is the debian way of rolling
cpan/perl modules into the debian paradigm (or so i hear -- i've
not needed it yet) do
apt-cache search 'lib.*perl' | grep -i 'module-name-here'
here's some ready-to-roll perl modules as shown on my potato
system via
apt-cache search 'lib.*perl' | sort
namely
im - Internet Message
leafnode - NNTP server for small leaf sites
libalias-perl - Access perl variables through aliases
libansicolor-perl - ANSI Color interface for Perl
libapache-asp-perl - perl Apache::ASP - Active Server Pages for Apache
with mod_perl.
libapache-dbi-perl - Connect apache server to database via perl's DBI
libapache-dbilogger-perl - Tracks what's being transferred in a DBI
database
libapache-filter-perl - perl Apache::Filter - Alter the output of
previous handlers.
libapache-mod-perl - Integration of perl with the Apache web server
libapache-session-perl - Perl modules for keeping persistent user data
across http requests.
libapache-ssi-perl - perl Apache::SSI - Implement Server Side Includes
in Perl.
libauthen-pam-perl - This module provides a Perl interface to the PAM
library.
libbusiness-ups-perl - A UPS Interface Module for Perl
libcdb-file-perl - Perl interface to Dan Berstein's cdb package.
libcgi-extratags-perl - Useful Extensions for the CGI Module
libcgi-fasttemplate-perl - perl module providing easy templates for cgi
scripts
libcgi-perl - modules for perl5, for use in writing CGI scripts.
libcgi-pm-perl - perl CGI - Simple Common Gateway Interface Class.
libcgi-xml-perl - Perl module to convert CGI.pm variables from/to XML
libcgi-xmlform-perl - Extension of CGI.pm which reads/generates
formatted XML
libcompress-zlib-perl - Perl module for creation and manipulation of
gzip files
libconvert-ber-perl - Perl implementation of Basic Encoding Rules (BER)
libcorba-orbit-perl - ORBit module for Perl
libcoy-perl - Replace perl error messages with haiku
libcurses-perl - Curses interface for Perl
libdate-calc-perl - Perl library for accessing dates
libdate-manip-perl - a perl library for manipulating dates
libdbd-csv-perl - perl DBD::CSV - DBI driver for CSV files
libdbd-mysql-perl - mySQL database interface for Perl
libdbd-pg-perl - a PostgreSQL interface for Perl 5 using DBI.
libdbi-perl - The Perl5 Database Interface by Tim Bunce
libdbix-cgi-perl - CGI Extension for libdbix-easy-perl
libdbix-easy-perl - Easy to Use DBI Interface
libdelimmatch-perl - Perl Module to match delimited substrings
libdevel-symdump-perl - Perl module for inspecting perl's symbol table
libdigest-md5-perl - MD5 Message Digest for Perl
libdockapp-dev - Window Maker's DockApp Making Standard Library
liberror-perl - Exception module for Perl
libfile-counterfile-perl - Persistent counter class for Perl
libfile-sync-perl - Perl interface to sync() and fsync()
libfile-tail-perl - File::Tail perl module
libfilesys-diskspace-perl - fetch filesystem size and usage information
from Perl
libfinance-yahooquote-perl - Perl5 module for retrieving stock quotes
from Yahoo! Finance
libfreedb-perl - Handles FreeDB (lookalike of cddb) calls for disc-cover
libft-perl - Perl module for the FreeType library
libgd-perl - Perl gif-manipulation module module GD.pm
libgdbm1 - GNU dbm database routines (runtime version). [libc5 compat]
libgdbm1-altdev - GNU dbm database routines (development files) [libc5
compat]
libgdbmg1 - GNU dbm database routines (runtime version). [libc6 version]
libgeo-metar-perl - Geo::METAR, Accessing Aviation Weather Information
with Perl
libgifgraph-perl - perl GIFgraph - Graph Plotting Module for Perl 5.
libgladexml-perl - Perl module for the libglade library.
libgnome-gnorba-perl - Gnorba module for Perl
libgnome-perl - Perl module for the gnome and zvt libraries.
libgtk-imlib-perl - Perl module for the gdkimlib library.
libgtk-perl - Perl module for the gtk+ library
libgtkglarea-perl - Perl module for the gtkglarea library.
libgtkxmhtml-perl - Perl module for the libgtkxmhtml library.
libhtml-clean-perl - perl HTML::Clean - Cleans up HTML code for web
browsers, not humans.
libhtml-embperl-perl - Library for embedding perl in HTML
libhtml-ep-perl - HTML::EP - a system for embedding Perl into HTML
libhtml-format-perl - Format HTML syntax trees
libhtml-mason-perl - HTML::Mason Perl module
libhtml-parser-perl - A collection of modules that parse HTML text
documents.
libhtml-simpleparse-perl - perl HTML::SimpleParse - a bare-bones HTML
parser.
libhtml-tree-perl - represent and create HTML syntax trees
libi18n-charset-perl - Perl module for mapping character set names to
IANA names
libi18n-langtags-perl - Perl module for dealing with RFC1766-style
language tags
libimage-size-perl - Tools for finding the size of an image under Perl
libiniconf-perl - perl IniConf - A Module for reading .ini-style
configuration files.
libio-stringy-perl - Perl5 modules for IO from scalars and arrays
libipc-signal-perl - utility functions dealing with signals for Perl
libjcode-perl - Perl library for Japanese character code conversion
libjcode-pm-perl - Perl extension interface to convert Japanese text
libkpathsea-perl - Perl interface to Kpathsea library and mktex*
replacements
liblocale-codes-perl - Perl modules to process ISO two letter codes
indicating language and country
liblocale-gettext-perl - Using libc functions for internationalization
in Perl
liblocale-maketext-perl - Perl module supporting l10n and
inheritance-based lexicons
liblockdev1-perl - perl extension library for locking devices.
liblogfile-rotate-perl - Perl module Logfile::Rotate
libmail-cclient-perl - Interface to UW c-client library
libmime-base64-perl - MIME/Base64 decoding for Perl
libmime-perl - Perl5 modules for MIME-compliant messages (MIME-tools)
libmldbm-perl - MLDBM perl module
libmon-perl - mon Perl modules for clients and server
libmpeg-mp3info-perl - perl MPEG::MP3Info - Manipulate / fetch info
from MP3 audio files.
libmsgcat-perl - Locale::Msgcat perl module
libnet-dns-perl - Net::DNS is a Perl interface to the DNS resolver.
libnet-finger-perl - Perl Module providing an API for Finger queries
libnet-irc-perl - IRC (Internet Relay Chat) interface module for Perl
libnet-ldap-perl - A Client interface to LDAP servers
libnet-perl - Implementation of Internet protocols for Perl
libnet-rawip-perl - Perl interface to lowlevel TCP/IP
libnet-ssleay-perl - Perl module for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
libnet-telnet-perl - Script telnetable connections
libnet-whois-perl - Perl Module providing an API to access InterNIC
whois database
libnetwork-ipv4addr-perl - The Net::IPv4Addr perl module API and
ipv4calc script
libnews-nntpclient-perl - News::NNTPClient, Perl support for accessing
NNTP servers
libnewt-perl - Perl bindings for Erik Troan's newt text-mode windowing
toolkit
libnkf-perl - Network Kanji code conversion Filter for Perl
libparse-recdescent-perl - Generates recursive-descent parsers in Perl
libparse-yapp-perl - Per module to create Perl OO fully reentrant LALR
parser modules
libpcre1 - Philip Hazel's Perl Compatible Regular Expression library
libpcre2 - Philip Hazel's Perl Compatible Regular Expression library
libpgperl - Perl modules for PostgreSQL.
libplot-perl - perl interface to plot library
libpoe-perl0 - An event driven component architecture.
libproc-syncexec-perl - spawn processes but report exec() errors
properly
libproc-waitstat-perl - interpret and act on wait() status values
libprpc-perl - Perl extensions for writing pRPC servers and clients
libroman-perl - Perl module for conversion between Roman and Arabic
numerals
librrdp-perl - Time-series data storage and display system (perl-piped)
librrds-perl - Time-series data storage and display system (perl-shared)
libsgmls-perl - Perl modules to process SGML parser output
libsnmp-session-perl - Perl support for accessing SNMP-aware devices
libsql-statement-perl - perl SQL::Statement - SQL parsing and
processing engine
libstatistics-descriptive-perl - Perl5 module of basic descriptive
statistical functions.
libstorable-perl - Storable extension for Perl5
libstring-shellquote-perl - quote strings for passing through the shell
libsufary-perl - Perl module for SUFARY.
libterm-readkey-perl - Change terminal modes, and perform non-blocking
reads
libterm-readline-gnu-perl - Perl module to use GNU Readline library
libterm-readline-perl-perl - Perl implementation of Readline libraries
libtext-csv-perl - perl Text::CSV_XS - comma-separated values
manipulation routines
libtext-format-perl - Perl module to format (text) paragraphs
libtext-template-perl - Text::Template perl module
libtime-hires-perl - High-resolution time manipulation in perl
libtime-modules-perl - Various Perl modules for time/date manipulation
libtime-period-perl - Perl library for testing if a time() is in a
specific period
libtimedate-perl - Time and date functions for perl.
libunicode-map8-perl - Perl module to map 8bit character sets to Unicode
libunicode-string-perl - Perl modules for Unicode strings
liburi-perl - Manipulates and accesses URI strings
libwww-perl - WWW client/server library for Perl
libwww-search-perl - Perl modules which provide an API to WWW search
engines.
libxbase-perl - Perl module to access xbase files (optionally through
DBI).
libxml-dom-perl - Perl extension to XML::Parser
libxml-generator-perl - Perl module to help in generating XML documents
libxml-grove-perl - Perl module providing access to parsed *ML instances
libxml-node-perl - Perl module providing a node based XML parsing
interface
libxml-parser-perl - Perl extension interface to expat.
libxml-perl - Collection of Perl modules for working with XML
libxml-rss-perl - Perl module to manage RSS (RDF Site Summary) files.
libxml-twig-perl - Perl module providing a tree interface to XML
documents
libxml-writer-perl - Perl module for writing XML documents
libxmltok1 - XML Parser Toolkit, runtime libraries
netcdf-perl - A perl extension for accessing netCDF datasets.
netscape-zh-resource-475 - Netscape 4.75 Chinese resources.
netscape-zh-resource-477 - Netscape 4.77 Chinese resources.
perl-5.004 - Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report Language.
perl-5.004-base - The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister
perl-5.005 - Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report Language.
perl-5.005-base - The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister
perlmagick - A perl interface to the libMagick graphics routines.
pgperl - perl interface to the pgplot plotting library
pkg-order - A Package dependency checker and install ordering tool
python-base - An interactive object-oriented scripting language.
rplay - A fake transitional package.
sgmls-doc - HTML documentation of libsgmls-perl and sgmlspl
xbase - XFree86 upgrade convenience package
it's not the whole cpan archive, but it's a bunch, and they're
all ready for apt-get install. (there are some extraneous items
-- but this'll at least show you which perl modules are
available so you can get'm up and running.)
--
I use Debian/GNU Linux version 2.2;
Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #54 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
:
Tired of SLOW BROWSING THROUGH THE ONLINE APACHE MANUAL? Get
your own local copy and never worry about bandwidth again:
apt-get install apache-doc
Then browse /usr/share/doc/apache/manual.html, quick like a
bunny.
Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
