Find if I have module

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

How can I find out if I have the below module in my Windows 2000?

use Mail::Sendmail;

I opened up ppm and not sure how to check from there because the help command doesnt say anything about what modules I have in my Perl 5.8.6

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Re: Find if I have module by borisz (Canon) on Aug 30, 2006 at 13:18 UTC
No news is good news ;-) `perl -MMail::Sendmail -e1` [download] Boris	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Find if I have module by ww (Archbishop) on Aug 30, 2006 at 13:25 UTC
not the clearest of labeling, but ppm help DOES mention query... eg: `c:\ppm ppm> query Mail` [download] should return a list of all modules beginning with Mail... Update to make explicit what was thought to be obviously implicit: " return a list of all locally installled modules beginning..."	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Find if I have module by planetscape (Chancellor) on Aug 30, 2006 at 14:19 UTC
Script to List all Install Modules may help you determine what is installed on your system. Variants may be found in abundance via Super Search. HTH, planetscape	[reply]
Re: Find if I have module by duff (Parson) on Aug 30, 2006 at 14:00 UTC
Not an answer to your question (you've already gotten those), but you might want to consider using Strawberry Perl as you'll have access to CPAN as you would on a normal unixish system. duff	[reply]
Re: Find if I have module by ChrisS (Monk) on Aug 30, 2006 at 17:05 UTC
Try the technique listed here in its original context. Basically, you can try this: `use ExtUtils::Installed; my $inst = ExtUtils::Installed->new(); my @missing = $inst->validate("File::BaseName"); # note the improper capitalization print @missing;` [download] In this case, the @missing array shows: `File::BaseName is not installed...` [download] The validate method returns a list of the missing files. Some of the other methods could help, too.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Find if I have module by satchm0h (Beadle) on Aug 30, 2006 at 19:50 UTC
eval to the rescue... `eval 'require Mail::Sendmail'; warn "No Love ($@)" if ($@);` [download] ...stumbling down the path toward enlightenment	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Find if I have module by jacques (Priest) on Aug 31, 2006 at 04:23 UTC
This is a good way. `use HTML::Perlinfo::Modules; my $m = HTML::Perlinfo::Modules->new(); $m->print_modules( show_only=>qr/Mail::Sendmail/ );` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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