how to identify the missing perl module to be installed

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Fri Jan 16 18:44:37 UTC 2009


>   is there a quick way to map a perl module to its corresponding
> package to be installed?  someone just dumped a perl script on one of
> my systems, and it fails with:
>
>   "Can't locate IO/Uncompress/Gunzip.pm in @INC ... etc etc "

[root at cerberus bruno]# yum whatprovides '*/IO/Uncompress/Gunzip.pm'
Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin, refresh-packagekit
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing/filelists_db           |  12 kB     00:00     
fedora/filelists_db                                      |  13 MB     00:00     
rpmfusion-nonfree/filelists_db                           |  44 kB     00:00     
rpmfusion-free-updates-testing/filelists_db              | 4.1 kB     00:00     
updates-testing/filelists_db                             | 1.5 MB     00:00     
rpmfusion-free-updates/filelists_db                      |  57 kB     00:00     
rpmfusion-free/filelists_db                              | 303 kB     00:00     
updates/filelists_db                                     | 4.3 MB     00:00     
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates/filelists_db                   |  14 kB     00:00     
perl-IO-Compress-Zlib-2.008-49.fc10.x86_64 : Perl interface to allow reading and
                                           : writing of gzip and zip data
Repo        : fedora
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/lib64/perl5/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/IO/Uncompress/Gunzip.pm



perl-IO-Compress-Zlib-2.008-52.fc10.x86_64 : Perl interface to allow reading and
                                           : writing of gzip and zip data
Repo        : updates
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/lib64/perl5/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/IO/Uncompress/Gunzip.pm



perl-IO-Compress-Zlib-2.008-52.fc10.x86_64 : Perl interface to allow reading and
                                           : writing of gzip and zip data
Repo        : installed
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/lib64/perl5/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/IO/Uncompress/Gunzip.pm







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