Because of problems discussed below, I have installed a new
version of perl, made sure that the commands "cpan" and "perl" are the
+ new commands, just installed, etc.

Then I did sudo find .cpan -exec chmod a+w {} \;
to make sure my ftps would not get on the wrong side of
permissions
Then sudo cpan
Then o conf init, but that command wanted to download
from CPAN using ftp, so I got into my USUAL troubles....

Namely:
All the ftp mirrors, all the ftp type commands, eg wget, fail, without
+ fail.
On the other hand, manual ftp succeeds on the same CPAN
files, without using root status. Here is a typical snippet
of the failure (partial result of cpan> o conf init):

Couldn't fetch MIRRORED.BY from ftp.mirror.ac.uk
Fetching with Net::FTP
  ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/MI
+RRORED.BY.gz
Couldn't fetch MIRRORED.BY.gz from ftp.mirror.ac.uk
LWP not available
Fetching with Net::FTP:
  ftp://usit.shef.ac.uk/pub/packages/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY
Couldn't fetch MIRRORED.BY from usit.shef.ac.uk
Fetching with Net::FTP
  ftp://usit.shef.ac.uk/pub/packages/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY.gz
Couldn't fetch MIRRORED.BY.gz from usit.shef.ac.uk

Can anyone throw any light on this? Thanks a lot.

David

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