μHOWTO: Install perl libraries in bulk
20060809 8:34 by javierWhen 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
$ 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.
August 9th, 2006 at 15:05
Will you some day migrate to Ruby? (JK!)