The mobo on my WinXP box went bad, and -- at least for now -- I'm not going back to Gates & Co. for more bloatware. My backup computer is an old 400mhz HP, and I've set it up with Ubuntu 7.1, compiling Perl5.8.8 as part of my LAMP stack. It's a very "standard" install structure AFAIK.

On WinXP, I depended on a package manager built into a local Perl homepage app (I think it was IndigoPerl). I found it very convenient that the documentation for newly installed packages showed up there in a nifty list.

Now when I install new modules, I use Ubuntu package repositories when it's easy, and CPAN when I want the latest version or can't find what I want via apt-get. I also install by compiling when the above don't work

I'm like a kid in a candy store. I want to try some modules just for fun, some from curiosity, and some because I just think I "should". Now I have so many modules installed kinda willy-nilly that I would like to have a local index.html that I could auto-update with links to (html representations) of all my current pod/man pages.

Does this already exist and I just don't know where to look or is there a script or tool for this job?

In reply to Automating help doc index as new modules are installed by Mr_Micawber

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