---
name: "pmall"
section: "1p"
platform: "linux"
package: "pmtools"
version: "2.2.0-3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/pmall"
---

# pmall(1p)

show all installed versions and descs

## NAME

pmall - show all installed versions and descs

## SYNOPSIS

```
    pmall [-d] [-w] [-a] [-s]
```

pmall - show all installed versions and descs

## DESCRIPTION

This program runs through all your installed modules and tells you what they're for and what version  number they are at.

The following options are honored:

- \-v

  give debug info

- \-w

  warn about missing descriptions on modules

- \-a

  include relative paths

- \-s

  sort output within each directory

## HISTORICAL NOTE

This program used to be called *pmdesc* and is included in *The Perl* *Cookbook* under that name.  However, that name has been usurped by  a simpler program.

For example, to find the versions of what is in your site-specific directory, the simpler *pmdesc* might be preferred:

```
    $ pmdesc `pminst -s | perl -lane 'print $F[1] if $F[0] =~ /site/'`
    XML::Parser::Expat (2.19) - Lowlevel access to James Clark's expat XML parser
    XML::Parser (2.19) - A perl module for parsing XML documents
```

## KNOWN BUGS

This program takes a long time to run.

Some modules don't work right (CPAN.pm, ExtUtils) because of noisy things they do at compile time or poor formatting of the pod.

## SEE ALSO

**pmdesc**(1) **pmvers**(1)

## AUTHORS and COPYRIGHTS

Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Christiansen.

Copyright (C) 2006-2014 Mark Leighton Fisher.

## LICENSE

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: (a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version, or (b) the Perl "Artistic License". (This is the Perl 5 licensing scheme.)

Please note this is a change from the original pmtools-1.00 (still available on CPAN), as pmtools-1.00 were licensed only under the Perl "Artistic License".