Re^3: Install LWP from CPAN on Ubuntu Heron 8.04

The Debian (and Ubuntu) package for a distribution Foo-Bar is always named libfoo-bar-perl.

For most modules like WWW::Mechanize the distribution has the same name as the main module, so look for a package libwww-mechanize-perl. I Don't know if there is such a package in your distribution.

(LWP is a bit special in this regard because the distribution predates the package names that we now know. Luckily apt-cache search perl lwp turns up libwww-perl - WWW client/server library for Perl (aka LWP).)

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Re^4: Install LWP from CPAN on Ubuntu Heron 8.04 by mpettis (Beadle) on Aug 21, 2008 at 17:10 UTC
aptitude install libwww-mechanize-perl Worked great, thanks! matt	[reply]
Re^4: Install LWP from CPAN on Ubuntu Heron 8.04 by mpettis (Beadle) on Aug 21, 2008 at 17:24 UTC
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	[reply]
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]