Could you please be more specific about FTP issue because it is not quite clear for me why should check if it is possible to use ftp

the CPAN utility will use the ftp command-line utility to do FTP's. If it cannot find 'ftp', it cannot get the information from your mirror. It might be a search path problem for the user account or the utility got moved or deleted.

Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration

I would not worry about that so much if you are getting the 'ftp' is missing error. You can be getting this error simply because of poor error handling on the part of the program.

In reply to Re^3: Installing Perl modules automatically by Herkum
in thread Installing Perl modules automatically by Anonymous Monk

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