"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I was looking around in dselct, and I did not see much in the way of perl >modules (no cpan.pm for instance). > >Since I would really like to use "the Debina wya" to insatll as much as >possible, I thought that I would ask about thsi, before just rushing off >and grabing the ones I need, and installling by hand.
CPAN.pm is part of the core Perl packages (perl-modules in woody/sid, probably perl-5.005 in potato). There are lots and lots of other Perl modules, packaged as lib*-perl - so if you want Foo::Bar, it may well be packaged as libfoo-bar-perl. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
