cpan on mac os x yosemite

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

Hi All,

I ask the question here, because PerlMonks have been the stopping point for my perl education so far, but please redirect me if this is not the place for my question. I recently upgraded to Yosemite, perl 5.18, and installed and configured cpan (v2.00) for local installation of modules, ie no sudo needed to install. It works, I can install modules just fine. But when I run an instance of cpan, nothing I type on the prompt is visible. I enter a command, eg 'help', and get the expected output, but the letters I type are not visible in the session. I don't see anything I type in cpan. Never experienced this before, and would not know where to start trouble shooting. Your insight is greatly appreciated!

thanks!

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Re: cpan on mac os x yosemite by Anonymous Monk on Apr 05, 2015 at 01:44 UTC
try `export TERM=dumb` before starting cpan ... could also try installing some Term::ReadLine:: module	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: cpan on mac os x yosemite by Anonymous Monk on Apr 05, 2015 at 01:52 UTC
Crossposted at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29452187/perl-cpan-strange-behavior. I cross-linked this cross-postings for maximum collaboration efficiency	[reply]
Re^2: cpan on mac os x yosemite by abualiga (Scribe) on Apr 05, 2015 at 03:26 UTC
Thanks Anonymous -- that worked. No idea how though. The TERM variable changes from `xterm-256color` to `dumb` and my `alias ls='ls -GpF -h'` does not give color output anymore, but cpan is now visible. And thanks for the post crosslinking tip.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: cpan on mac os x yosemite by Anonymous Monk on Apr 05, 2015 at 09:36 UTC
Well :) you could always set term=dumb for perl only through perl options PERL5OPT / sitecustomize... even CPAN/MyConfig.pm ... after all its just an %ENV entry Also, depending on which Term::ReadLine:: you got there might be hints in the bug queue , rt://Term-ReadLine-Perl... or you might submit a bug report	[reply]
Re^4: cpan on mac os x yosemite by abualiga (Scribe) on Apr 05, 2015 at 13:24 UTC
Re^5: cpan on mac os x yosemite by abualiga (Scribe) on Apr 05, 2015 at 16:23 UTC
Re^3: cpan on mac os x yosemite by abualiga (Scribe) on Apr 05, 2015 at 03:32 UTC
Also, `export TERM=dumb` does not play nice with vim.	[reply] [d/l]