viewing installable perl modules via apt-get

[Noah]

Hi,

I am open to the apt-get method.  But here is my dilemma is there a way 
to view all installable perl modules via apt-get?  I am most of the time 
unable to identify which is the proper install name for a particular 
perl module.

Cheers,

Noah


Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 07:40 -0700, Noah wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I have a new ubuntu installed on my machine and I cannot seem to build
>> the Digest::SHA module.  What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> here are the shell commands with failed output from the Perl CLI.
>>
>> root at noah-desktop:/home/noah# perl -MCPAN -e shell  | tee SHA.txt
>> CPAN: File::HomeDir loaded ok (v0.69)
> 
> Why not just use apt?
> 
> sudo apt-get install libdigest-sha1-perl
>