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Getting a listing of the current Perl modules installed on Webserve

By executing the command perldoc perllocal in your Webserve account, you can find out what modules are already installed on the system.

Each time a module is installed on your system, it appends information like the following to a file called perllocal.pod. This pod file shows what, where and when was installed and the version. The following is part of the output you will get from the perldoc perllocal command:

Tue Nov 13 15:08:24 2007: "Module" Test::Harness + `installed into: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8" + `LINKTYPE: dynamic" + `VERSION: 3.00" + `EXE_FILES: bin/prove" Tue Nov 13 15:08:26 2007: "Module" ExtUtils::CBuilder + `installed into: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8" + `LINKTYPE: dynamic" + `VERSION: 6.36" + `EXE_FILES: bin/instmodsh"

Each entry includes the Module name, date and time it was installed, where it was installed, linktype [ static or dynamic ], version and executables, if any, included with the module.