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This is certainly related to this question, but I feel it doesn't overlap, so here we go. How can I get the functionality of the following command on Ubuntu (and/or Debian as bonus):

yum whatprovides 'perl(Foo::Bar)'

Obviously I can attempt to rely on the package somehow ending up in a folder structure that resembles the namespaces in Perl, but I'm looking for something equivalent, i.e. equally brief and trivial. However, if it doesn't work as briefly on Ubuntu, I can do with a longer path and create my own function.

Please consider 10.04 or newer for this question.

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What does perl(Foo::Bar) mean? Is that a Perl package? – Ken Feb 29 '12 at 20:46
I'm going with yes...it's a perl module. He's trying to find out what apt package provides a particular perl module. – Call me V Feb 29 '12 at 23:14
@Ken: yes it is. – 0xC0000022L Mar 1 '12 at 17:09

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