Changing the list of URLs:

Start the CPAN shell and issue

o conf urllist

...to see the urllist. Say you have one source and you want to replace it with another:

   o conf urllist pop
   o conf urllist push http://ftp.du.se/CPAN
   o conf commit
   reload index

update: JTOBEY seems to have taken over development of Date::Simple, however KASEI's module (1.03) is still on CPAN. Issuing an "install JTOBEY/Date-Simple-2.04.tar.gz" seems to work. However, that will get you a specific version and not the latest...

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