Re^5: Install LWP from CPAN on Ubuntu Heron 8.04

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in thread Install LWP from CPAN on Ubuntu Heron 8.04

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.

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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]

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