[PLUG] Installing perl libraries -- question

[Eric Wilhelm]

# from Vincent Yau
# on Friday 11 November 2005 02:15 pm:

>ncftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY./

That's an odd url.  What port does the ncftp:// protocol use?

Your (root's?) ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm should have a 'urllist' array 
reference in the Config = { ... } hash somewhere.

...
  'urllist' => [
         "ftp://archive.progeny.com/CPAN/",
         "http://cpan.develooper.com/",
         "http://www.perl.com/CPAN/",
   ],
...

You can also use the ("o conf urllist push ftp://myurl/") instructions 
that it gives you in the error message, provided that you start the 
shell ("perl -MCPAN -e shell")

If you're on debian (or most distros for that matter) you will find a 
ready-made package for common modules.

--Eric
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