Ubuntu's Perl

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Tue Aug 16 13:00:32 UTC 2005


Bob Nielsen wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 12:29:01PM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:

>> So Ubuntu's perl files 
>> are hardly installed "all over the place", but if you install any perl
>> modules from CPAN instead of an ubuntu/debian repository they're likely
>> to go to a different place.
>> 
> You can use dh-make-perl to Debianize CPAN modules, although every one I
> have needed already exists as a Debian/Ubuntu package.

I think I have only ever had one CPAN module that I couldn't get directly as
a debianized package, I just seem to recall that that did get left in an
unusual place (and I either don't have it any more or I replaced it with a
debian package before moving to ubuntu).
-- 
derek





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