This is the README file for CPANPLUS::Dist::Deb, a CPANPLUS extension for perl package to debian package conversion.

Please refer to 'perldoc CPANPLUS::Dist::Deb' after installation for details.

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• Description

CPANPLUS::Dist::Deb

CPANPLUS::Dist::Deb is a CPANPLUS plugin that allows you to create debian packages from CPAN packages. This is as easy as passing an extra option to the installation process or setting a config option.

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• Installation

CPANPLUS::Dist::Deb follows the standard perl module install process

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

The module uses no C or XS parts, so no c-compiler is required, but it does have dependencies on external programs, which currently require you to install the following packages:

       debhelper
       dpkg
       dpkg-dev
       fakeroot
       gcc
       libc6-dev

To use the (optional) automatic creation of Sources.gz and Packages.gz files, to use your locally created .debs as an apt repository you need the following packages:

apt-utils

This module is probably most easily installed using the cpan2deb mirror found at 'debian.pkgs.cpan.org'. Add the following line to your apt sources.list to use it:

# debian.cpan
deb http://debian.pkgs.cpan.org/debian unstable main

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AUTHOR

This module by Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT

This module is copyright (c) 2004 Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>. All rights reserved.

This library is free software; you may redistribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.