Re: Perl CPAN module help

[Patrick Eisenacher <eisenacher at fillmore-labs dot com>]

or quick and dirty:

perl -e 'use CPAN; CPAN::Shell->r;'

HTH,
Patrick

Brian Dessent schrieb:

> zzapper wrote:
>
> > Peter,
> >
> >
> > > cpan
> >
> > cpan>
> >
> > How do you list modules already installed?
>
>
> There's no definitive way to do this.  If you just want to see if you
> have the Foo::Bar module, you can use "perl -MFoo::Bar -e 1" and if you
> get an error then you need to install Foo::Bar.
>
> You can also try the following script which uses the ExtUtils::Installed
> module, but I have found that its output is sometimes misleading, in
> that it will not display base (stock included) modules.  And I'm not
> sure if it knows about modules that are installed through means other
> than CPAN (e.g. through your distro's package manager.)
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> use ExtUtils::Installed;
> my $instmod = ExtUtils::Installed->new();
> foreach my $module ($instmod->modules()) {
> my $version = $instmod->version($module) || "???";
>        print "$module -- $version\n";
> }
>
> Brian



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