Tk install, via cpan, failing on "inactivity

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

Environment is:

perl 5.38.0
cpan 2.36
(OS) Rocky Linux 8 host, connected via "ssh -Y".

I am trying to install Tk via cpan Tk and it is failing on inactivity_timeout reached:

...
Extracting tkCanvas.c
Extracting tkCanvas.h
inactivity_timeout reached
  SREZIC/Tk-804.036.tar.gz
  /DIR/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALL_BASE=/DIR -- TIMED OUT
Stopping: 'install' failed for 'Tk'.
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The "Extracting" lines change but install fails with the same message. I could not find anything relevant on "Tk inactivity_timeout" here or via DuckDuckGo|Google.

What can I do to overcome damned "inactivity_timeout"?

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Re: Tk install, via cpan, failing on "inactivity_timeout reached" by Anonymous Monk on Nov 10, 2023 at 03:17 UTC
Ok:sigh: <inactivity_timeout</c> is a setting of `cpan`; changed it from 6 to 300; will increase until Tk install does not fail due to the value.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Tk install, via cpan, failing on "inactivity_timeout reached" by Anonymous Monk on Nov 10, 2023 at 03:34 UTC
Turned out it was me myself who had changed the timeout value from default of 0 to not wait until the end of time for any prompt interaction.	[reply]