viewing installable perl modules via apt-get

Smoot Carl-Mitchell smoot at tic.com
Thu Jun 26 18:06:52 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 07:58 -0700, Noah wrote:

> 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.

This apt search seems to give a reasonable list of perl modules:

apt-cache search '^lib.*-perl$'
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