Using CPAN with a proxy failing after o conf init /proxy/

Question

I have a Linux box in a corporate environment in which web access is gated through a proxy which requires authentication.

During a first run of cpan it auto configu

Answer 1

Install LWP. The cpan utility is using curl, I guess because it couldn't load LWP. No proxy parameters are being passed to curl, so you need the export http_proxy=http://host:port/ before running the command.

Or, if you can install LWP using your distribution's package manager, then it should configure the proxy access correctly.