"John Birkhead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > I'm a perl newbie and I'm having problems getting CPAN connecting > and downloading on SuSE 8.2. I start with 'perl -MCPAN -e shell' but the > urlist is undefined. The default of 'ftp.perl.org' doesn't work. > > If I 'o conf urlist push ftp://cpan.nas.nasa.gov/pub/perl/CPAN' (or other > mirror sites I've tried) when I download this url appears to be ignored and > the downloads are attempted from the default. > > It also appears that when I exit and restart CPAN it has forgotten the url I > added. >
Sounds like maybe your CPAN configuration is blown? after invoking the cpan shell, run: cpan> o conf init to reinitialialize you cpan configuration. This is the same series of steps you went through to initialize CPAN.pm. You will be given a list of mirrors and so fourth. Todd W. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
