Hi,

I'm using Ubuntu myself and I'm new at Perl so I'm not able to comment on the 'cleaning up' process but I can make two observations.

Debian has a perlmodule naming system that tries to match (after a fashion) the module names, by sticking a lib in front of the it. e.g. DBD::mysql is libdbd-mysql-perl

Apt-cache search searches your repositories and you can use this to find what modules are available, e.g.

apt-cache search libdbi
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outputs the following and has allowed me to guess at the modules I needed

libdbi-perl - Perl5 database interface by Tim Bunce
libdbd-freetds - Freetds database server driver for libdbi
libdbd-mysql - MySQL database server driver for libdbi
libdbd-pgsql - PostgreSQL database server driver for libdbi
libdbd-sqlite - SQLite database driver for libdbi
libdbd-sqlite3 - SQLite3 database driver for libdbi
libdbi-doc - DB Independent Abstraction Layer for C  -- documentation
libdbi-ruby - Database Independent Interface for Ruby
libdbi-ruby1.8 - Database Independent Interface for Ruby 1.8
libdbi0 - Database Independent Abstraction Layer for C
libdbi0-dev - DB Independent Abstraction Layer for C  -- development f
+iles
libdbicx-testdatabase-perl - Create a temporary database from a DBIx::
+Class::Schema
libdbix-abstract-perl - DBI SQL abstraction
libdbix-class-datetime-epoch-perl - Automatic inflation/deflation of e
+poch-based DateTime objects for DBIx::Class
libdbix-class-htmlwidget-perl - Like FromForm but with DBIx::Class and
+ HTML::Widget
libdbix-class-perl - Extensible and flexible object <-> relational map
+per
libdbix-class-schema-loader-perl - Dynamic definition of a DBIx::Class
+::Schema
libdbix-contextualfetch-perl - Add context aware fetches to DBI
libdbix-datasource-perl - Database-independent create and drop functio
+ns
libdbix-dbschema-perl - Database-independent schema objects
libdbix-easy-perl - Easy to Use DBI Interface
libdbix-fulltextsearch-perl - Indexing documents with MySQL as storage
libdbix-password-perl - Perl module for creating a global password fil
+e for DB passwords
libdbix-profile-perl - DBI query profiler
libdbix-recordset-perl - Perl extension for DBI recordsets
libdbix-searchbuilder-perl - Encapsulate SQL queries and rows in simpl
+e perl objects
libdbix-sequence-perl - A simple SQL92 ID generator
libdbix-xml-rdb-perl - perl module for creating XML from a DBI datasou
+rce
libdbix-xmlmessage-perl - perl module for exchanging XML messages betw
+een DBI data sources
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The debian team do say if you can't find ask and they'll build. I'm starting to think I might 'roll my own' and learn the CPAN way, but was going to discuss it on Perlmonks first.

As I say, I'm a noob and I had similar issues re modules but feel free to disregard my comments and definitely pay attention to what others suggest here (especially if it contradicts what I've said - chances are it's me that's in error).

I've had this node pointed out to me by Elisheva : http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=753416 it discusses debian/CPAN in detail