Specify CPAN mirror?

[goBoating]

Hey Guys,

I've used CPAN for years and come upon a question. I'm in a new job and am behind a proxy server. I need to add two entries (ftp and http) to that proxy server to let traffic through to install Perl modules. The problem is that I don't know how to tell the CPAN module to use a specific CPAN mirror.

Search yielded to much 'noise' to sort through.

Thanks

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[max1x]

When you configure OR reconfigure CPAN, an option is add to the SITE you would like to use. On the CLI, it's simply

perl -MCPAN -e shell, which if config is not set will walk you through the process. Here you can specify which mirrors using http or ftp.

 

[goBoating]

Great.
Thanks.

'hope this helps

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