μHOWTO: Install perl libraries in bulk

20060809 8:34 by javier

When you have to install packages that live out of dpkg, don’t you hate to install their dependencies by hand? I do.
Even though this is exactly what CPAN.pm does, there is a Debian way: If you have another machine with the correct dependencies already installed, you can use dpkg to copy those over.
For instance, this one-liner requests installation of the same Perl libraries that live in another machine:

$ ssh original.machine.com ‘dpkg –get-selections’|grep ‘^lib.*perl’|grep ‘install$’|dpkg –set-selections
$ sudo aptitude -f install

You may replace the first regexp to whatever your want (e.g. “^libapache-mod” for perl modules, “^lib.*java” for Java libraries and so on).
Gotta love Debian.

Tags: Debian, Perl, linux, apt, sysadmin

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