I just tried searching apt-cache for some of these although the problem
is that there are quite a debian packages that contain the perl modules
I am interested in, so if I needed to install one of them I am not sure
where to start

I went to http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_installed_modules

and found this below

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use ExtUtils::Installed;
my $instmod =3D ExtUtils::Installed->new();
foreach my $module ($instmod->modules()) {
my $version =3D $instmod->version($module) || "???";
       print "$module -- $version\n";
              }

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Which should tell me what perl modules are installed instead I only get
the version of perl installed. =20

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The real dilemma is that I am trying to configure squidalyser and it
depends on the previuos perl modules mentioned below.=20

Can I safely just run the perl script without knowing that the required
perl modules are installed or do I have to confirm that first? =20

Here are the instructions below:


"The squidparse.pl script takes data from the squid logfile and inserts
it into the MySQL database. It probably needs to be run as `root', since
it needs to read the logfile and ordinary users can't, under normal
circumstances, do this. Copy the script and its configuration file to
the appropriate location on your computer:


mkdir /usr/local/squidparse

cd squidalyser-0.2.53

cp squidparse/* /usr/local/squidparse
Next create a crontab entry to run the squidparse.pl script each
morning:

crontab -e
This will invoke your editor. Type this line at the end of that file:

00 03 * * * /usr/local/squidparse/squidparse.pl"




Jim

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 14:18, der.hans wrote:
> Am 20. Aug, 2003 schw=E4tzte Jim so:
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> > I need to install the below modules.  What is the best way to install
> > these on Debian considering I could already have some of them installed
> > and do not want to create system havok.
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> Generally, I suggest using debian packages.
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> Most of the ones you list have packages, I believe.
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> If you find one that doesn't use dh-make-perl. You can also use db-make-p=
erl
> if you need a newer version than what is packaged. I did that to get the
> most recent SpamAssassin on my box running woody.
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> dh-make-perl - Create debian packages from perl modules
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> I use something like the following to locate packages perl modules.
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> apt-cache search dbi | grep ^lib | grep perl
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> ciao,
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> der.hans