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HOW-TO: Packaging Perl CPAN Devel::Trace for Ubuntu Linux

Recently I ran into a situation where a Perl CPAN module I needed was not available in the Ubuntu repositories. Someone on IRC kindly showed me a slick Ubuntu package which is able to quickly produce Ubuntu .deb packages out of Perl CPAN modules! Here is what you need to know:

Using a developer computer (aka "play box") add the following packages:

$sudo apt-get install dh-make-perl build-essential

Next use dh-make-perl to package the needed CPAN module:

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