Do the ubuntu repo offer an conglomerate sort of perl pkgs

[Joel Roth]

Hi Harry,

The Debian Perl Team does an outstanding job of testing
and packaging perl modules. Ubuntu inherits all that.

In your case try, 'apt-cache search libfile-which-perl'.
If it exists, an install will pull all dependencies.

Mixing CPAN installation with system perl involves
a few uncertainties. One approach is local::lib, which lets
you install CPAN modules to your home directory. I prefer
that to installing with root privileges to /usr/local.

Another approach is install separate perl versions. Perlbrew
is fairly easy to set up, plenv is a bit more featureful.

happy hacking,


On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 09:42:52PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Sorry the Subject line is a bit confusing... couldn't think, right off
> hand, of a good way to express what I mean briefly.
> 
> I run into some perl pkgs missing every once in a while, that I'd like
> to get installed but would rather not have to screw around with cpan if I
> can help it.
> 
> I'm a recent gentoo user where we had quite a lot of perl pkgs
> available thru the pkg managing tools (emerge and friends) called
> g-cpan .. still used cpan but a good bit of it was done by emerge.
> 
> I wondered if apt has something like that. Or maybe some meta perl
> pkgs that install a bunch of related stuff in one go.
> 
> The particular pkg I'm after right now is File::Which... nothing too
> serious there... but it saves some time when programming perl.
> 
> I know how to use cpan and have done so quite a few time... only a
> superficial level of usage though.  I'm pretty sure when I setup cpan
> and get to the point of installing File::Which I will have a whole
> pile of pkgs installed... won't even be sure what a lot of them really
> are.
> 
> I'd rather have all that head scratching done by apt or aptitude.
> 
> 
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