Re^2: When will CPAN.pm just work?

I have had a similar problem. It's due to the somewhat broken File Transfer Protocol. If you set the environment variable FTP_PASSIVE to 1 and then run cpan things should work better for you. In the bash shell this looks like:

export FTP_PASSIVE=1
perl -MCPAN -e shell
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Re^3: When will CPAN.pm just work? by kelan (Deacon) on Jan 24, 2005 at 13:27 UTC
In `bash` and `zsh` (and probably most other shells), you can also set the environment variable on a per-process basis like this: `$ FTP_PASSIVE=1 perl -MCPAN -e shell` [download]	[reply] [d/l]


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