Re: Issue with 'cpan' program

[Achim Gratz <Stromeko at nexgo dot de>]

David Christensen writes:
> Today, I did a fresh install of Cygwin 64-bit on a recently built (and
> fully updated) Windows 7 Professional 64-bit computer.

Sorry for the late answer.

> When I run the command:
>
>     cpan local::lib
>
> One core goes to 100% and the program hangs indefinitely.
>
>
> When I run the command:
>
>     cpan
>
> I see an endless stream of:
>
>     Press SPACE and ENTER to disable ftp
>     Press SPACE and ENTER to disable ftp
>     Press SPACE and ENTER to disable ftp
>     ...
>
> Pressing SPACE, ENTER, and/or SPACE+ENTER has no effect.

It looks like you're picking up an FTP program from Windows.  You should
configure cpan to use something else instead (you may have to install
some other Cygwin packages, like wget or lftp in order to do so).


Regards,
Achim.
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