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

You can try using this before calling cpan:

export http_proxy=http://my_net_id:my_net_pwd@10.12.8.9:3128/

This way maybe curl will use the proxy.

Answer 2

you need to provide absolute proxy URL address for configure CPAN proxy settings . don't worry instead of providing simply IP address and port number please provide as given below.

cpan> o conf init /proxy/

Your ftp_proxy? [] ftp://10.12.8.9:3128

Your http_proxy? [] http://10.12.8.9:3128

Your no_proxy? []

and provide username and password if needed (Make sure that you have the downloading permission )

I also have same the issue, but now its working for me. I should also work for you.

BR Jerry James

Answer 3

[root@localhost ~] cpan

Terminal does not support AddHistory.

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9800) Enter 'h' for help.

list my download url

cpan[1]> o conf urllist 


urllist
    0 [http://mirror.waia.asn.au/pub/cpan/]
    1 [ftp://mirrors.coopvgg.com.ar/CPAN/]
    2 [http://httpupdate3.cpanel.net/CPAN/]

Type 'o conf' to view all configuration items

add CPAN mirror list

cpan[2]> o conf urllist push http://httpupdate3.cpanel.net/CPAN/

Please use 'o conf commit' to make the config permanent!

commit

cpan[3]> o conf commit

commit: wrote '/root/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm'

cpan[4]>

now you can install perl module again like : cpan -i Text::Template

Answer 4

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.