ken@titan ~/tmp $ cpan ... cpan[1]> install CPAN ... ANDK/CPAN-2.36.tar.gz /usr/bin/make install -- OK cpan[2]> q $ perl -MCPAN -E 'say $CPAN::VERSION' 2.36 $ cpan -v /home/ken/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.36.0/bin/cpan script version 1.678, CPAN.pm version 2.36 ken@titan ~/tmp $ cpan ... cpan[1]> o conf urllist urllist 0 [https://www.cpan.org/] 1 [https://cpan.metacpan.org/] ... cpan[2]> q $ ls -l ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm -rw-r--r-- 1 ken None 2286 May 31 2022 /home/ken/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm $ grep urllist ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm 'urllist' => [q[https://www.cpan.org/], q[https://cpan.metacpan.org/]], $ perl -v | head -2 | tail -1 This is perl 5, version 36, subversion 0 (v5.36.0) built for cygwin-thread-multi $ which perl /home/ken/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.36.0/bin/perl $ which cpan /home/ken/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.36.0/bin/cpan