All CPAN mirrors are not working in CPAN configuration?

Question

I am trying to install CPAN and configure it on Centos 6.

I am getting this message in configuration:

CPAN.pm requires configuration, but most of it can be done automatically. If you answer 'no' below, you will enter an interactive dialog for each configuration option instead. Would you like to configure as much as possible automatically? [yes]

I chose yes, then I am prompted with this message:

Autoconfigured everything but 'urllist'. Now you need to choose your CPAN mirror sites. You can let me pick mirrors for you, you can select them from a list or you can enter them by hand. Would you like me to automatically choose some CPAN mirror sites for you? (This means connecting to the Internet) [yes]

I also chose yes to get that message:

Trying to fetch a mirror list from the Internet Fetching with LWP: http://www.perl.org/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY Fetching with LWP: http://www.perl.org/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY.gz Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY.gz Fetching with Net::FTP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY Could not connect to host 'ftp.perl.org' with Net::FTP Fetching with Net::FTP ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY.gz Could not connect to host 'ftp.perl.org' with Net::FTP

Trying with /usr/bin/wget -O "/home/abashir/.cpan/sources/MIRRORED.BY.tmp33459" to get http://www.perl.org/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY --2015-05-25 16:39:15-- http://www.perl.org/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY Resolving www.perl.org... 108.161.188.196 Connecting to www.perl.org|108.161.188.196|:80... failed: No route to host.

Function system("/usr/bin/wget -O "/home/abashir/.cpan/sources/MIRRORED.BY.tmp33459"

"http://www.perl.org/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY" ") returned status 4 (wstat 1024), left /home/abashir/.cpan/sources/MIRRORED.BY.tmp33459 with size 0

Trying with /usr/bin/wget -O "/home/abashir/.cpan/sources/MIRRORED.BY.tmp33459" to get ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY --2015-05-25 16:39:15-- ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY => “/home/abashir/.cpan/sources/MIRRORED.BY.tmp33459” Resolving ftp.perl.org... 130.161.131.20, 131.211.32.146 Connecting to ftp.perl.org|130.161.131.20|:21... failed: No route to host. Connecting to ftp.perl.org|131.211.32.146|:21... failed: No route to host.

Function system("/usr/bin/wget -O "/home/abashir/.cpan/sources/MIRRORED.BY.tmp33459"

"ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY" ") returned status 4 (wstat 1024), left /home/abashir/.cpan/sources/MIRRORED.BY.tmp33459 with size 0 Warning: no success downloading '/home/abashir/.cpan/sources/MIRRORED.BY.tmp33459'. Giving up on it. No external ftp command available

Fetching with LWP: http://www.perl.org/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY Fetching with LWP: http://www.perl.org/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY.gz

Trying with /usr/bin/wget -O "/home/abashir/.cpan/sources/MIRRORED.BY.tmp33459" to get http://www.perl.org/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY --2015-05-25 16:39:15-- http://www.perl.org/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY Resolving www.perl.org... 108.161.188.196 Connecting to www.perl.org|108.161.188.196|:80... failed: No route to host.

Function system("/usr/bin/wget -O "/home/abashir/.cpan/sources/MIRRORED.BY.tmp33459"

"http://www.perl.org/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY" ") returned status 4 (wstat 1024), left /home/abashir/.cpan/sources/MIRRORED.BY.tmp33459 with size 0 Warning: no success downloading '/home/abashir/.cpan/sources/MIRRORED.BY.tmp33459'. Giving up on it. Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY.gz Fetching with Net::FTP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY Could not connect to host 'ftp.perl.org' with Net::FTP Fetching with Net::FTP ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY.gz Could not connect to host 'ftp.perl.org' with Net::FTP

Trying with /usr/bin/wget -O "/home/abashir/.cpan/sources/MIRRORED.BY.tmp33459" to get ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY --2015-05-25 16:39:17-- ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY => “/home/abashir/.cpan/sources/MIRRORED.BY.tmp33459” Resolving ftp.perl.org... 131.211.32.146, 130.161.131.20 Connecting to ftp.perl.org|131.211.32.146|:21... failed: No route to host. Connecting to ftp.perl.org|130.161.131.20|:21... failed: No route to host.

Function system("/usr/bin/wget -O "/home/abashir/.cpan/sources/MIRRORED.BY.tmp33459"

"ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY" ") returned status 4 (wstat 1024), left /home/abashir/.cpan/sources/MIRRORED.BY.tmp33459 with size 0 Warning: no success downloading '/home/abashir/.cpan/sources/MIRRORED.BY.tmp33459'. Giving up on it. No external ftp command available

Your urllist is empty! The urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o conf urllist push ftp://myurl/'

Could not fetch MIRRORED.BY We failed to get a copy of the mirror list from the Internet. You will need to provide CPAN mirror URLs yourself.

Now you can enter your own CPAN URLs by hand. A local CPAN mirror can be listed using a 'file:' URL like 'file:///path/to/cpan/'

CPAN.pm needs at least one URL where it can fetch CPAN files from.

Please enter your CPAN site: []

Then I checked the list of mirrors to in perlmodlib for netherlands(where I live), and I entered them one by one, and configuration was terminated as follows.

Please enter your CPAN site: [] ftp://ftp.quicknet.nl/pub/CPAN/ Enter another URL or ENTER to quit: [] http://mirror.hostfuss.com/CPAN/ Enter another URL or ENTER to quit: [] ftp://mirror.hostfuss.com/CPAN/ Enter another URL or ENTER to quit: [] http://mirrors3.kernel.org/cpan/ Enter another URL or ENTER to quit: [] ftp://mirrors3.kernel.org/pub/CPAN/ Enter another URL or ENTER to quit: [] http://cpan.mirror.versatel.nl/ Enter another URL or ENTER to quit: [] ftp://ftp.mirror.versatel.nl/cpan/ Enter another URL or ENTER to quit: [] ftp://download.xs4all.nl/pub/mirror/CPAN/ Enter another URL or ENTER to quit: [] http://mirror.leaseweb.com/CPAN/ Enter another URL or ENTER to quit: [] ftp://mirror.leaseweb.com/CPAN/ Enter another URL or ENTER to quit: [] ftp://ftp.cpan.nl/pub/CPAN/ Enter another URL or ENTER to quit: [] http://archive.cs.uu.nl/mirror/CPAN/ Enter another URL or ENTER to quit: [] ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/mirror/CPAN/ Enter another URL or ENTER to quit: [] http://luxitude.net/cpan/ Enter another URL or ENTER to quit: []

New urllist
ftp://ftp.quicknet.nl/pub/CPAN/ http://mirror.hostfuss.com/CPAN/
ftp://mirror.hostfuss.com/CPAN/ http://mirrors3.kernel.org/cpan/
ftp://mirrors3.kernel.org/pub/CPAN/ http://cpan.mirror.versatel.nl/ ftp://ftp.mirror.versatel.nl/cpan/
ftp://download.xs4all.nl/pub/mirror/CPAN/
http://mirror.leaseweb.com/CPAN/ ftp://mirror.leaseweb.com/CPAN/
ftp://ftp.cpan.nl/pub/CPAN/ http://archive.cs.uu.nl/mirror/CPAN/
ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/mirror/CPAN/ http://luxitude.net/cpan/

Autoconfiguration complete.

commit: wrote '/home/abashir/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm'

You can re-run configuration any time with 'o conf init' in the CPAN shell

Now, whenever I try to install any module, i get errors, for example trying to install XML::Simple, I get the following at the end of trials:

Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file (ftp://ftp.quicknet.nl/pub/CPAN/, http://mirror.hostfuss.com/CPAN/, ftp://mirror.hostfuss.com/CPAN/, http://mirrors3.kernel.org/cpan/, ftp://mirrors3.kernel.org/pub/CPAN/, http://cpan.mirror.versatel.nl/, ftp://ftp.mirror.versatel.nl/cpan/, ftp://download.xs4all.nl/pub/mirror/CPAN/, http://mirror.leaseweb.com/CPAN/, ftp://mirror.leaseweb.com/CPAN/, ftp://ftp.cpan.nl/pub/CPAN/, http://archive.cs.uu.nl/mirror/CPAN/, ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/mirror/CPAN/, http://luxitude.net/cpan/) are valid. The urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o conf urllist push ftp://myurl/'

Could not fetch authors/01mailrc.txt.gz Lockfile removed.

You can check the Full log of the final step here

How may I solve this ?

Answer 1

You seem to be behind a proxy. You have to configure the proxy in CPAN shell:

o conf http_proxy 'http://user:password@proxy.com'

Answer 2

run cpan shell first:

$ sudo perl -MCPAN -eshell

or from root:

# perl -MCPAN -eshell

then from the cpan shell:

cpan> install Bundle::CPAN

exit from cpan shell and build modules list (maybe need root):

$ perl -MCPAN -eautobundle

and then install needed modules, for example:

# perl -MCPAN -eshell
cpan> notest install Text::Iconv DateTime

modules will be installed to /usr/lib64/perl*/ for x86_64 system.