what perl modules are installed

Ian Docherty londonperlmongers at iandocherty.com
Wed Feb 13 14:15:30 GMT 2008


Jesse Vincent wrote:
>
> On Feb 13, 2008, at 8:29 AM, Ian Docherty wrote:
>
>> I am sure other people have had this requirement.
>>
>> How do I find out what perl modules are installed on a system and 
>> what version?
>>
>> I have found reference to a file perllocal.pod which is supposed to 
>> contain the list of perl
>> modules and their date, but no version and I suspect it is only used 
>> when doing a 'make'.
>
> That's the quick and dirty way. It's very dirty.
>
>>
>> Is there a quick way of doing this rather than traversing the @INC 
>> directories and reading
>> every file?
>
> That's the _accurate_ way.
I am just trying out a module called Module::Finder which looks promising.
>
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Ian C. Docherty (icydee)
>>
>



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