in reply to how to find what modules are available for use ?

See "perldoc perlfaq3", How do I find which modules are installed on my system?

Apart from the methods mentioned there you can also use CPANPLUS to list all modules (though I forgot the exact mechanism).

Update: This is the CPANPLUS solution I sometimes use; I have no idea if it's available from the command line interface too:

use strict; use warnings; use CPANPLUS; my $c = CPANPLUS::Backend->new(); my %seen; for my $m ($c->installed()) { next if $seen{$m->package}++; print $m->package(), "\t\t", $m->version(), $/; }
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Re^2: how to find what modules are available for use ?
by JadeNB (Chaplain) on Oct 05, 2009 at 15:19 UTC
    I didn't see it in perlfaq3, so I'll just mention that I use perldoc perllocal in combination with corelist. It's not foolproof—for example, it doesn't play well with Module::Build-based modules—but it gives a pretty good idea of what's on my system.