in reply to Installing modules problem:

Typically the CPAN module tries several different methods to connect to the outside world. Try installing from the shell: 
% perl -MCPAN -e shell

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Perhaps it will bypass the problem and try another method.

-Mark

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Re: Re: Installing modules problem:
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 11, 2002 at 18:20 UTC
    The problem still persists (even in the shell)... I keep getting: 'CPAN::LWP::UserAgent->new dies with Can't locate object method "host" via package "URI::_foreign"' as an error.
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      after you run in shell mode (perl -MCPAN -e shell) try running o conf init and verify all of the entries, after that do a install Bundle::CPAN and make sure all of the reqs are up to date. I had this same problem and it fixed it for me...

      -Waswas
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