Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 17:03 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>> hi,
>> Am Donnerstag, den 26.06.2008, 07:58 -0700 schrieb 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.
>> how about:
>>
>> apt-cache search cpan ?
>>
>> (might have some false positives for non modules that refer to cpan
>> though)
>
> The above seems to work okay. To limit the output to what I am looking
> for, I often do something like:
>
> apt-cache search perl | grep digest
>
> It appears most of the perl module packages are of the form:
>
> libmod1-mod2-perl
>
> where mod1-mod2 referes to the perl package mod1::mod2

Aptitude has a pretty good search ability:

aptitude search 'digest.*-perl'




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