[Thamesvalley-pm] checking for perl modules

[Greg Matthews]

Is there an easy way to run a check for perl modules at the start of a 
script so that it can present a friendly/useful message to the user 
along the lines of:

"This script requires the following modules which don't appear to be 
installed on your system:"

rather than crashing out with something like:

Can't locate IO/Socket/SSL.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl 
/usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 
/usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 
/usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/perl5/Net/LDAP.pm line 970, 
<STDIN> line 1.

which is pretty horrendous to the casual user.

GREG
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Greg Matthews           01491 692445
Head of UNIX/Linux, iTSS Wallingford

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