how to identify the missing perl module to be installed

[Gustavo Eli]

another way to view the installed modules installed to see the
documentation for each module ;)

perldoc perllocal

Gustavo Eli Pelcastre H.

>
>   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 "
>
> fair enough, so which of the perl module packages would i need to
> install?  taking a shot in the dark, on one of my other systems, i
> ran:
>
> $ yum search perl-IO-Compress
> ... snip ...
> perl-IO-Compress-Base.i386 : Base Class for IO::Compress modules
> perl-IO-Compress-Bzip2.noarch : Perl interface to allow reading and
> writing of bzip2 data
> perl-IO-Compress-Zlib.i386 : Perl interface to allow reading and writing
> of gzip and zip data
>
> $ rpm -qi perl-IO-Compress-Base
> ...
> This module is the base class for all IO::Compress and IO::Uncompress
> modules.
> $
>
>   so that kind of gives it away, but what if i wasn't such a lucky
> guesser?  is there a mapping utility from module to RPM package?
> thanks.
>
> rday
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