Samuel Kaufman

One of the things developers often struggle with is dependency resolution.

For example:

cpanm WWW::Curl::Easy -v


.....

Configuring WWW-Curl-4.15 ... Locating required external dependency bin:curl-config... missing.

Unresolvable missing external dependency.

Please install 'curl-config' seperately and try again.

NA: Unable to build distribution on this platform.

This used to set me on a wild google chase, nowadays I just go to:

http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents

or http://packages.ubuntu.com/

Keyword: curl-config

Radio button: packages that contain files named like this, search

Bingo! There's three choices, 'libcurl4-openssl-dev' looks good for my purposes ( the others are other SSL implementations for curl )

apt-get install it, retry WWW::Curl::Easy, and it works this time.