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

I'm trying to install Net::OpenSSH using perl cpan installation and I believe it is not working properly. I used 'sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::OpenSSH'and it ran for a while then stopped at this point: (No further activity or even return to prompt after) 
determine prerequisites
cp lib/Net/OpenSSH/ConnectionCache.pm blib/lib/Net/OpenSSH/ConnectionC
+ache.pm
cp lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuoter/fish.pm blib/lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuote
+r/fish.pm
cp lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuoter.pm blib/lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuoter.pm
cp lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuoter/POSIX.pm blib/lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuot
+er/POSIX.pm
cp lib/Net/OpenSSH/ModuleLoader.pm blib/lib/Net/OpenSSH/ModuleLoader.p
+m
cp lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuoter/Chain.pm blib/lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuot
+er/Chain.pm
cp lib/Net/OpenSSH/Constants.pm blib/lib/Net/OpenSSH/Constants.pm
cp lib/Net/OpenSSH/SSH.pm blib/lib/Net/OpenSSH/SSH.pm
cp lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuoter/MSWin.pm blib/lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuot
+er/MSWin.pm
cp lib/Net/OpenSSH/OSTracer.pm blib/lib/Net/OpenSSH/OSTracer.pm
cp lib/Net/OpenSSH.pm blib/lib/Net/OpenSSH.pm
cp lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuoter/MSCmd.pm blib/lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuot
+er/MSCmd.pm
cp lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuoter/csh.pm blib/lib/Net/OpenSSH/ShellQuoter
+/csh.pm
cp lib/Net/OpenSSH/ObjectRemote.pm blib/lib/Net/OpenSSH/ObjectRemote.p
+m
Manifying blib/man3/Net::OpenSSH::Constants.3perl
Manifying blib/man3/Net::OpenSSH::SSH.3perl
Manifying blib/man3/Net::OpenSSH::ShellQuoter::MSWin.3perl
Manifying blib/man3/Net::OpenSSH::ConnectionCache.3perl
Manifying blib/man3/Net::OpenSSH::ShellQuoter::MSCmd.3perl
Manifying blib/man3/Net::OpenSSH.3perl
Manifying blib/man3/Net::OpenSSH::OSTracer.3perl
  SALVA/Net-OpenSSH-0.70.tar.gz
  /usr/ccs/bin/make -- OK
Warning (usually harmless): 'YAML' not installed, will not store persi
+stent state
Running make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /opt/csw/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "te
+st_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/1_run.t .... skipped: OpenSSH 4.1 or later required
t/quoting.t .. Use of uninitialized value $ENV{"LANG"} in pattern matc
+h (m//) at t/quoting.t line 17.

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Re: Cpan install gets stuck installing Net OpenSSH ?
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Mar 11, 2016 at 02:05 UTC
    I see:
    t/1_run.t .... skipped: OpenSSH 4.1 or later required

    You obviously don't have OpenSSH 4.1 or later, but the Net-OpenSSH-0.70 README says that OpenSSH 4.1 or later is required, and recommends OpenSSH 5.x.

    I therefore suggest your problem is that your version of OpenSSH is too old (and unsupported by Net-OpenSSH-0.70).
    However, I don't actually know if this is the case - but the first thing I would try is to update the OpenSSH installation.

    Cheers,
    Rob
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      Actually, that looks like a Solaris box. The ssh client bundled is an old fork of OpenSSH (SUN ssh, well, now probably Oracle SSH) which is not supported by Net::OpenSSH.

      Packages for the real OpenSSH may be available from Oracle or 3th party repositories.

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        I got farther this time. No errors about missing or wrong versions of OpenSSH. But I am still getting stuck at this: Password: t/1_run.t .... skipped: Unable to establish SSH connection to localhost! t/quoting.t .. Use of uninitialized value $ENV{"LANG"} in pattern match (m//) at t/quoting.t line 17. I'm not sure what/where this env value is located or how to fix it.
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      It appears this is the case. We have the sun version of OpenSSL and SSH. I'm looking into getting those upgraded.
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      OK, so now that I got the ENV variable sorted out, it is still getting stuck at "t/quoting.t". However, it is not giving me any error now, it just sits there until it eventually times out (takes 1hr+ for some reason).
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        The next step is to run the hanging test in isolation to see at which test it stalls (and maybe even see why):

        cpan
CPAN> look Net::OpenSSH
$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make
$ perl -Ilib -w t/quoting.t

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Re: Cpan install gets stuck installing Net OpenSSH ?
by neilwatson (Priest) on Mar 10, 2016 at 20:12 UTC

    Something in t/quoting.t by the look of it. Try running that by hand.

    Neil Watson
    watson-wilson.ca

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      I tried a different install method, using cpanminus and ended up with this: Building and testing Net-OpenSSH-0.70 ... FAIL ! Timed out (> 1800s). Use --verbose to retry. ! Installing Net::OpenSSH failed. See /usr/local/home/jm3731/.cpanm/work/1457646119.8139/build.log for details. Retry with --force to force install it. 1 distribution installed
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        I tried a different install method, using cpanminus and ended up with this: SUMMARY

        And then what happened?

        Why aren't you running the failing tests by hand?

        or make test TEST_VERBOSE=1 TEST_FILES=t/quoting.t

        or prove -vb t/quoting.t

        or perl -Mblib t/quoting.t

        or all of them verbosely? make test TEST_VERBOSE=1

        or prove -vbr t

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