Re^4: Install LWP from CPAN on Ubuntu Heron 8.04

Got it all to work, and I now understand that for many of the CPAN packages I want, there is a corresponding Linux package. Dumb question, but I'll ask anyway -- can someone tell me why some CPAN modules have corresponding Linux (in my case, Ubuntu) packages? Are they for the Perl modules that have some binaries and are not pure Perl? Because some modules download fine in CPAN, and I'd doubt that there is a corresponding Linux package. Thanks, Matt

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Re^5: Install LWP from CPAN on Ubuntu Heron 8.04 by chromatic (Archbishop) on Aug 21, 2008 at 21:08 UTC
Can someone tell me why some CPAN modules have corresponding Linux (in my case, Ubuntu) packages? They exist as Debian or Ubuntu packages only because someone packaged them. Perhaps they're very popular, or they're requirements of other packages. In general, there's no single reason.	[reply]
Re^6: Install LWP from CPAN on Ubuntu Heron 8.04 by Anonymous Monk on Aug 22, 2008 at 06:54 UTC
usually its because some software available/distributed with Ubuntu needs it	[reply]