Truble in installing CPAN moduels

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

Hi,
I have recently installed Perl on my VMware machine.
Im not able to install modules using CPAN the modules not downloading it keeps retrying each time
OS: Cent os 5.8

cpan> install Bundle::LWP
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/
+perl5/5.8.8/CPAN.pm line 717, <FIN> line 2.
DEBUG: c[2]$@[Can't locate HTTP/Request.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /us
+r/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/si
+te_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8
+.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/
+perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/l
+ib/perl5/5.8.8) at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/CPAN.pm line 704, <FIN> line 
+2.
]ret[] at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/CPAN.pm line 717, <FIN> line 2.
LWP not available
Fetching with Net::FTP:
  ftp://mirrors.sohu.com/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/
+perl5/5.8.8/CPAN.pm line 717, <FIN> line 2.
DEBUG: c[2]$@[Can't locate HTTP/Request.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /us
+r/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/si
+te_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8
+.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/
+perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/l
+ib/perl5/5.8.8) at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/CPAN.pm line 704, <FIN> line 
+2.
]ret[] at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/CPAN.pm line 717, <FIN> line 2.
LWP not available

Trying with "/usr/bin/wget -O -" to get
    ftp://mirrors.sohu.com/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
--2012-07-23 20:12:35--  ftp://mirrors.sohu.com/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.
+txt.gz
           => `-'
Resolving mirrors.sohu.com... 123.129.214.98
Connecting to mirrors.sohu.com|123.129.214.98|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ...
[download]

it keeps retrying every time

Trying with "/usr/bin/wget -O -" to get
    ftp://mirrors.sohu.com/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
--2012-07-23 20:11:28--  ftp://mirrors.sohu.com/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.
+txt.gz
           => `-'
Resolving mirrors.sohu.com... 123.129.214.98
Connecting to mirrors.sohu.com|123.129.214.98|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ...
Error in server response, closing control connection.
Retrying.

--2012-07-23 20:11:33--  ftp://mirrors.sohu.com/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.
+txt.gz
  (try: 2) => `-'
Connecting to mirrors.sohu.com|123.129.214.98|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ...
Error in server response, closing control connection.
Retrying.
[download]

Plz help me on this...

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Re: Truble in installing CPAN moduels by aitap (Curate) on Jul 23, 2012 at 15:04 UTC
Are these mirrors available from the machine you are trying to install modules to? You may want to set up other mirrors using `o conf urllist`. EDIT: You may also want to `yum install perl-libwww-perl`, so CPAN will be able to use system LWP before installing anything else. Sorry if my advice was wrong.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Truble in installing CPAN moduels by SriniK (Beadle) on Jul 23, 2012 at 15:54 UTC
Thanks for the replay. Yes i can able to download module using "wget". I have installed "perl-libwww-perl" and the error says cpan> install CPAN::Mirrors Fetching with LWP: ftp://mirrors.sohu.com/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz CPAN::LWP::UserAgent->new dies with Can't locate HTTP/Config.pm in @IN +C (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-mu +lti /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/ +perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor +_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linu +x-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8) at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8. +8/LWP/UserAgent.pm line 770, <FIN> line 2. Can't call method "mirror" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8 +.8/CPAN.pm line 2506, <FIN> line 2. [download] Update : Thanks for ur help i have manually installed the "HTTP::Config" module now its working fine. Once again thanks	[reply] [d/l]