Problems With CPAN

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

I'm trying to install Date::Calc in OS X via the CPAN shell but I just get the following message:

You have not configured a urllist and did not allow to connect to the
internet. I will continue but it is very likely that we will face
problems. If this happens, please consider to call either

    o conf init connect_to_internet_ok
or
    o conf init urllist

Sleeping 5 seconds now.
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I have absolutely no idea where to go next. Does anyone else have a clue?

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Re: Problems With CPAN by jhourcle (Prior) on Apr 01, 2009 at 18:35 UTC
I ran into the same problem last week. (and for those who are quickly dismissive -- 'o conf init urllist' did _not_ do anything) It turned out that Apple's 2009-01 security update breaks CPAN because they insert an outdated IO.bundle. See the previous link for information on how to fix it.	[reply]
Re: Problems With CPAN by apl (Monsignor) on Apr 01, 2009 at 19:06 UTC
I had the same problem last night under Ubuntu with a different module (and the recommended commands didn't change a thing). Try downloading and using cpanplus. That hasn't reported a similar problem.	[reply]
Re: Problems With CPAN by Bloodnok (Vicar) on Apr 01, 2009 at 16:51 UTC
You could always try the suggested commands (within the CPAN shell]) ... :P A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))	[reply]
Re: Problems With CPAN by netvarun (Initiate) on Oct 19, 2009 at 21:26 UTC
I had the same issue too. After reconfiguring CPAN the problem went away. To reconfigure CPAN Start cpan: `perl -MCPAN -e shell` once you get to the prompt,enter: `o conf init` to automatically reset all config parameters to default values. this should fix the issue.	[reply] [d/l] [select]