in reply to Re: CPAN error on first run
in thread CPAN error on first run

network is ok

configured to go through a proxy and CPAN is also configure for the proxy.

Finally realised that a colleague had installed CPANMinus and this works flawlessly.

Could this be the issue CPAN and CPANMinus (cpanm) can't be installed concurrently?

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Re^3: CPAN error on first run
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 29, 2015 at 08:23 UTC

    Could this be the issue CPAN and CPANMinus (cpanm) can't be installed concurrently?

    No