Duane Bronson wrote:
apt-get: doesn't even have a search function...
There was a push at one time to switch everyone over from apt-get to aptitude, but I see the latter mentioned less often these days. In any case, 'aptitude search' could prove useful if you don't remember the previously mentioned apt-cache trick. You can also search via the web at packages.debian.org.
"perl -MCPAN" will probably work on the unixy boxes, but then what's the point of yum and macports?
I usually resort to a source install if a package isn't available, but presumably the right way to handle it is to use a tool that repackages CPAN modules as Debian packages. Supposedly there is such a tool floating around.
Given the way CPAN modules seem to be quite interconnected in a web of dependencies, it's somewhat amazing that they can create as few Debian packages as they do, without the dependencies forcing them to package up most of CPAN. :-)
And won't there be consequences for installing modules both through distributions AND through CPAN?
CPAN already provides a certain level of package management (install, uninstall, upgrade), so the distribution packaging is somewhat redundant, but mixing the two could in theory result in unmet dependency problems, resulting in the installation of distribution packages over the top of a source install.
For example, you install package A from source. Later you install package B from your distribution, which depends on A, which has since been packaged by the distribution. Now the distribution package for A, automatically installed as a dependency, will overwrite your source install, because the dependency checker for the distribution only checks its package database.
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