The interactive shell to do the local cpan configuration

zli034 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

When I type this:

C:\> perl -MCPAN -e "shell"

This should fires up the interactive shell. Follow the prompts and I should be able to accept the defaults setting.

It worked good when I was using perl5.6. But now perl5.88, just found out this command makes no difference with :

C:\>cpan

Directly gives cpan> promote.

If I want to change some settings, like unzip or wget, and save them what I can do?

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Re: The interactive shell to do the local cpan configuration by Corion (Patriarch) on Sep 02, 2007 at 20:18 UTC
Typing `help` gives me a help screen. Also, reading CPAN helps. The command you seem to be looking for is: `o conf` [download] for displaying the configuration, `o conf gzip` [download] to set a new value for the `gzip` option and `o conf init` [download] to go through the whole initialization process once again.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: The interactive shell to do the local cpan configuration by zli034 (Monk) on Sep 02, 2007 at 20:22 UTC
o conf init This is what I want	[reply]
Re^3: The interactive shell to do the local cpan configuration by sgt (Deacon) on Sep 03, 2007 at 13:14 UTC
well I usually change directly the CPAN::MyConfig.pm in the .cpan directory. I also need different ones to manage various distros and proxies. In the end I use aliases/scripts like this: `% steph@ape (/home/stephan/) % % cat /bin/perl_cpan58[78] #!/usr/bin/bash perl -I ~/.cpan587 -MCPAN::MyConfig -MCPAN "$@" #!/usr/bin/bash PATH=/opt/perl588/bin:/usr/bin perl -I ~/.cpan588 -MCPAN::MyConfig -MCPAN "$@"` [download] cheers --stephan	[reply] [d/l]