Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3FB3EEA6.10EB0BD5@dessent.net> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 12:50:46 -0800 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... X-Accept-Language: en,en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Perl CPAN module help References: <3FB3B2CB@epostleser.online.no> <6jc7rv4palt1j9tpjomtfdg802udungc0t@4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host.linuxsv3.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - cygwin.com X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - dessent.net Note-from-DJ: This may be spam 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/