Re: Finding installed perl modules

Thanks James! :)

Jon

Quoting James Zuelow <e5z8652@zuelow.net>:

> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:30:31 -0800
> Jon Reynolds <jonr@destar.net> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Is there an easy way to find all the installed perl modules in linux? It
> sounded
> > like an easy question until I started trying to find the answer. :)
> >
> > Jon
>
> Debian (and probably your distribution) includes a utility called pmtools.
> Actually a small number of utilities that will list modules. The one you
> might be interested in is `pmall` which will list and describe all modules
> installed. (I can't find the homepage for the utility - google references to
> it all return a 403 forbidden error.)
>
> Or, this script from the cpan faq may work for you as well:
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
> # change the perl path if you have it somewhere else...
> use ExtUtils::Installed;
> my $instmod = ExtUtils::Installed->new();
> foreach my $module ($instmod->modules()) {
> my $version = $instmod->version($module) || "???";
> print "$module -- $version\n";
> }
>
> If you don't have ExtUtils::Installed (comes with the standard Debian perl
> package) get it from cpan.
>
> On my system, the script only lists the modules I've pulled from cpan. The
> pmall command also includes the modules that came with the Debian package,
> which is probably more useful.
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
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Received on Tue Aug 31 13:04:45 2004