CPAN configuration reset
As you all know CPAN, short for Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, is an archive of software modules written in Perl which has a web presence worldwide and is usually used for automatic installation of software written in Perl, we’ll see how to use CPAN to install ASSP dependencies.
There is something that simply I can’t remember when I need it and that is how to force settings configuration reset, I needed it just today on one of my production servers as it was unable to download modules from configured repositories and it is not that obvious how to do this via the CPAN shell help.
To reset configuration simply issue the following command :
perl -MCPAN -e shell
to open up the CPAN shell and the issue :
o conf init
Next time you’ll launch CPAN it’ll will in “wizard” configuration mode.
Hope this will help you as for sure it’ll help me next time I need to reconfigure CPAN.
Cheer Lethe.




