Leif B. Kristensen wrote:
Hi,
I'm still fairly new to Debian and am trying to find my way around the
system. I've got some gripes about the naming practice and poor
documentation of Perl modules. As an example, I started out today to
find a package which I have used a lot on my W2K system, named
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 00:11:11 +0200, Leif B. Kristensen wrote:
However, I wonder if there is any correspondence between a package name
such as it appears on say, CPAN, and the Debian package names?
Most Perl packages in Debian are named based upon the CPAN package name.
Some examples:
DBD::Pg -
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:43:12AM +0100, Richard Downer wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 00:11:11 +0200, Leif B. Kristensen wrote:
However, I wonder if there is any correspondence between a package name
such as it appears on say, CPAN, and the Debian package names?
Most Perl packages in Debian
Hi,
I'm still fairly new to Debian and am trying to find my way around the
system. I've got some gripes about the naming practice and poor
documentation of Perl modules. As an example, I started out today to
find a package which I have used a lot on my W2K system, named
DBD::XBase. It's an
Thus spake Leif B. Kristensen:
However, I wonder if there is any correspondence between a package name
such as it appears on say, CPAN, and the Debian package names? Shouldn't
the original module name be referred to on the package page?
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 17:29:24 -0500, Nathan Poznick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thus spake Leif B. Kristensen:
However, I wonder if there is any correspondence between a package name
such as it appears on say, CPAN, and the Debian package names? Shouldn't
the original module name be referred to on
Thus spake Leif B. Kristensen:
Ahem. So, in order to find one package of interest, I should install a
random number of packages and read the documentation afterwards? Or,
maybe I could run an
apt-get install *
and be finished with it once and for all?
Thank you for a really imaginative
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 19:33:30 -0500, Nathan Poznick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You asked what you should do to read the documentation from a package.
If you want to read a package's documentation, you should install or at
least download the package. Not rocket science there. If your intent
is to
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