in reply to How to effectively update perl modules which are installed in my homedir

Search your homedir for a file called perllocal.pod. It lists all the packages you've installed. Assuming, of course, that your toolchain supports perllocal (cpan and cpanp both do, but I don't know about others).

The section for one installed module looks like...

=head2 Thu Feb 17 19:27:04 2011: C<Module> L<DBI|DBI> =over 4 =item * C<installed into: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.3> =item * C<LINKTYPE: dynamic> =item * C<VERSION: 1.616> =item * C<EXE_FILES: dbiproxy dbiprof dbilogstrip> =back