Re^3: Problem Starting CPAN Shell with ftp.perl.org

How do you do that?

By adding HTTP URLs in the URL-list. The main tool to manage that list is "o conf" in the CPAN shell.

You can see the current contents (under "urllist") with just "o conf", or, more limited in output, with "o conf urllist".

You can replace the whole URL-list with, for example (this is the contents I have, which must have been put there by default):

o conf urllist http://ppm.activestate.com/CPAN http://cpan.perl.org
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You can also add a URL to the existing list with shift and push, like this:

o conf urllist push http://cpan.perl.org
o conf urllist unshift http://cpan.perl.org
[download]

or drop the first or last entry resp. with

o conf urllist shift
o conf urllist pop
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You must save the changes with

o conf commit
[download]

or you can rollback (after a disastrous mistake) with

o conf defaults
[download]

HTH.

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Re^4: Problem Starting CPAN Shell with ftp.perl.org by Anonymous Monk on Mar 25, 2009 at 15:59 UTC
Thank you very much for step by step instructions. I am a perl / Linux newbie and was trying to get some perl modules installed for past 2 days. Even though my firewall was allowing ftp, somehow I couldn't download the required modules using ftp. As soon as i added https to my cpan config file, things worked flawlessly. Thanks again	[reply]
Re^4: Problem Starting CPAN Shell with ftp.perl.org by Anonymous Monk on Nov 06, 2009 at 21:34 UTC
Um. . .if you could get to a CPAN shell without going through this we wouldn't be having this conversation, right?	[reply]
Re^4: Problem Starting CPAN Shell with ftp.perl.org by Anonymous Monk on May 13, 2010 at 06:39 UTC
after much frustration, the following worked for me: cpan <-- answer "no" to initial setup. This allows (auto configured) Config.pm file (see below) to be initialised. Previously I think this file had "1;" or something helpful in it! I then added: `'dontload_hash' => {"Net::FTP" => 1, "LWP" =>1 }, # disable Net::FTP + and LWP which usually hang to: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/CPAN/Config.pm - see section: $CPAN::Config = { ...` [download] but this alone did not seem to do the job. I'm still not sure if this step had any effect. (in cpan shell) `o conf urllist http://ppm.activestate.com/CPAN http://cpan.perl.org o conf commit quit` [download] worked for me - thanks! 20100528 Janitored by Corion: Added formatting, code tags, as per Writeup Formatting Tips	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Problem Starting CPAN Shell with ftp.perl.org by Anonymous Monk on Jul 17, 2012 at 14:59 UTC
So I did ... # perl -MCPAN -e 'shell' And then ... cpan> o conf urllist http://ppm.activestate.com/CPAN http://cpan.perl.org cpan> exit Terminal does not support GetHistory. Lockfile removed. But when I do # cpan I still get ... Fetching with Net::FTP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY Fetching with Net::FTP ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY.gz	[reply]
Re^5: Problem Starting CPAN Shell with ftp.perl.org by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 17, 2012 at 15:02 UTC
`# perl -MCPAN -e 'shell'` [download] And then ... `cpan> o conf urllist http://ppm.activestate.com/CPAN http://cpan.p +erl.org cpan> exit Terminal does not support GetHistory. Lockfile removed.` [download] You did not save your configuration. Before leaving the CPAN shell, you need the `o conf commit` [download] command. Just like the posts instructed you.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: Problem Starting CPAN Shell with ftp.perl.org by bart (Canon) on Jul 29, 2012 at 12:30 UTC
`# perl -MCPAN -e 'shell'` Tip for the technically less experienced people: the quotes are unnecessary on all platforms that I know off, so to avoid portability problems, it may be better to drop them: `perl -MCPAN -e shell` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: Problem Starting CPAN Shell with ftp.perl.org by Anonymous Monk on Jul 17, 2012 at 15:16 UTC
Still getting the following even after the `o conf commit` `Fetching with Net::FTP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]