When a module is installed in Perl, such as Net::SSH::Perl or Net::LDAP, the module adds information to a file called perllocal.pod on your system. The perllocal.pod is usually located at /usr/local/lib/perl5/version/arch. The vast majority of modules append information to the perllocal.pod file. The perldoc -l module_name command will determine if the perllocal.pod file contains an entry for a certain module. In this example, the Net::SSH::Perl module is installed on the system. Be careful, as this search is CaSe SenSiTiVe.

~]# perldoc -l Net::SSH::Perl
/usr/local/lib64/perl5/Net/SSH/Perl.pm

In this example, the Net::LDAP module is probably not installed, as there are no matches for Net::LDAP in the perllocal.pod file.

~]# perldoc -l Net::LDAP
No documentation found for "Net::LDAP".