Querying offline CPAN

sedusedan has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I use minicpan to download CPAN to my laptop, for offline work. I bet lots of others do the same. What do you use to query this offline CPAN (e.g. search modules or authors by name)? The standard CPAN client? Is there something remotely similar to the web-based search.cpan.org, for offline use? I've read that there's a CPAN app for iPhone, how about for Linux laptops?

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Re: Querying offline CPAN by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Nov 09, 2011 at 03:56 UTC
Take a look at CPAN::Mini::Webserver.	[reply]
Re^2: Querying offline CPAN by sedusedan (Pilgrim) on Nov 09, 2011 at 10:48 UTC
Thanks, I love you! :)	[reply]
Re: Querying offline CPAN by DrHyde (Prior) on Nov 10, 2011 at 14:37 UTC
Yes, you can use the standard CPAN.pm client - just point it at file:///whatever instead of at a web site.	[reply]
Re: Querying offline CPAN by vinian (Beadle) on Nov 11, 2011 at 15:15 UTC
maybe `cpanp` could meet you needs.it's not a web base client, but easy to use	[reply] [d/l]