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I can't seem to get CPAN installs working on a Solaris machine. Here is my current output.

~# perl -MCPAN -eshell Terminal does not support AddHistory. cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.7601) ReadLine support available (try 'install Bundle::CPAN') cpan> install Bundle::LWP CPAN: Storable loaded ok LWP not available CPAN: Net::FTP loaded ok Fetching with Net::FTP: ftp://ftp.dti.ad.jp/pub/lang/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz Couldn't fetch 01mailrc.txt.gz from ftp.dti.ad.jp ... ...

This output is repeated for every mirror. Any ideas why this doesn't work?

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There's a few possibilities of what it could be, but the most typical issue is that you're behind a firewall that requires you to use passive FTP. You can either look for an HTTP mirror, or try setting the environmental variable FTP_PASSIVE to a true value before running cpan.

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    export FTP_PASSIVE=1 Commented Aug 13, 2009 at 5:05
  • Yes, this was it. I ended up figuring this out before I saw your post. Hope this helps someone else. Commented Aug 13, 2009 at 5:05
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As root

/usr/perl5/5.8.4/bin/perlgcc -MCPAN -e shell

seems to have done the trick for me. I am on solaris 10 update 6 on sparc.

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