I am using ActiveState Perl 5.12.4
If you working with an ActiveState installation, I would not use the cpan shell unless you have to.

Depending upon the module, ActiveState may have done a lot of work past what you would get with cpan (that is definitely true on Windows!). If they have a pre-built installation (which may include binary code .so's, .dll's), use it!

It appears that there is a proxy issue here and they can be hard to resolve. The easy thing to do for a module in the Active State repository is to download the .ppd file. Then use the command line version of ppm (perl package manager) to install it. Type ppm ? at the command prompt to learn how.

Also note that there are multiple .ppd repositories. Active State has a big one, but it is just one of many. Not everything that is available as a .ppd is available as a .ppd on the Active State repository. There is a package on the Active State site that their ppm program uses which will tell you these other "well known" sites - mainly Canadian.

In reply to Re: PPM/CPAN connection issues by Marshall
in thread PPM/CPAN connection issues by technojosh

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