Re^2: Net::Libnet Module Installation

Morgon, my machine is behind a proxy so it is not fetching Modules from CPAN.org, can you tell how to configure cpan to go through a proxy, its for my future use. I belive i need to configure the following details Proxy IP & Port, Domain name, username and password.

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Re^3: Net::Libnet Module Installation by morgon (Priest) on Jul 28, 2010 at 23:26 UTC
You can check the documentation of the CPAN-module with "perldoc CPAN". It uses some configuration variables that you can set (at the shell-prompt) with "o conf <variable> <value>". After you've made changes you need to commit them with "o conf commit". To use a proxy (I think) you need to set the variables "http_proxy" (maybe also "ftp_proxy") and possibly (if you have to authenticate at the proxy) "proxy_user" and "poxy_pass". So try (at the prompt you get with "perl -MCPAN -e shell" `o conf http_proxy <your proxy> o conf http_user <your proxy-user> o conf http_pass <your proxy-password> o conf commit` [download] and it should work.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^3: Net::Libnet Module Installation
by morgon (Priest) on Jul 28, 2010 at 23:26 UTC

It uses some configuration variables that you can set (at the shell-prompt) with "o conf <variable> <value>".

After you've made changes you need to commit them with "o conf commit".

To use a proxy (I think) you need to set the variables "http_proxy" (maybe also "ftp_proxy") and possibly (if you have to authenticate at the proxy) "proxy_user" and "poxy_pass".

So try (at the prompt you get with "perl -MCPAN -e shell"

o conf http_proxy <your proxy>
o conf http_user <your proxy-user>
o conf http_pass <your proxy-password>
o conf commit
[download]

and it should work.

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