[lug] Reconfiguring CPAN ftp sites

Joseph McDonald joem at uu.net
Thu Oct 24 15:38:37 MDT 2002


vi /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/CPAN/Config.pm

	--joey

Andrew R. Diederich said:
> 
> Folks,
> 
> I was setting up CPAN so I could install the Date::Calc module.  Since it
> was the first time I was running it on this system, it asked lots of
> questions about what ftp servers I wanted, etc.  I started with
> ftp.cs.colorado.edu, since it's close.  
> 
> Anyway, I can't ftp to ftp.cs.colorado.edu, and I don't know how to
> reconfigure the CPAN stuff.  It made a ~/.cpan directory, but when I
> deleted that CPAN still knew my settings.  Where is the file so I can
> manually configure CPAN again, or, better yet, what's the command so I can
> force it to ask me questions again?
> 
> I'm using January Krud, so it's perl 5.6.  I couldn't find what I needed
> at the CPAN FAQ, btw.
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> -- 
> Andrew Diederich 
> 
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