I found that installing native Debian or Ubuntu Perl packages, such is often more reliable and convenient than "manually" installing Perl modules via cpanm (especially for XS-Modules). Is there an easy way to find these modules given a list of required Perl modules? The most convenient way would be to map a cpanfile, such as
requires 'XML::LibXSLT', '1.78';
to a list of distributions and packages that provide the modules for different target platforms:
XML::LibXSLT, Ubuntu 13.04, libxml-libxslt-perl, 1.78
XML::LibXSLT, Ubuntu 13.10, libxml-libxslt-perl, 1.78
XML::LibXSLT, Ubuntu 14.04, libxml-libxslt-perl, 1.84
XML::LibXSLT, Debian squeeze, libxml-libxslt-perl, 1.70
XML::LibXSLT, Debian wheezy, libxml-libxslt-perl, 1.77
XML::LibXSLT, Debian jessie, libxml-libxslt-perl, 1.92
XML::LibXSLT, Debian sid, libxml-libxslt-perl, 1.92
P.S.: I guess the information can somehow be looked up from the package repositories of each distribution, e.g. http://packages.ubuntu.com/ and https://packages.debian.org but is there a scriptable solution that already does this lookup?
On Debian-based systems, install the dh-make-perl package and try
dh-make-perl locate XML::LibXSLT
On my LMDE box, it outputs:
== dh-make-perl 0.80 ==
Using cached Contents from Thu Sep 18 13:23:19 2014
XML::LibXSLT is in libxml-libxslt-perl package
For mapping this package name to other Linux distros, you could use distromatch. It also seems to support Perl (CPAN) and Python package names. Unfortunately, distromatch seems to be unmaintained and does not work out-of-the-box now. Recently I did manage to make it work well enough for translating Debian to openSUSE package names.