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The download for the 'App-xml_grep2-0.14.tar.gz' perl module continually fails for me.

cpan http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MI/MIROD/App-xml_grep2-0.14.tar.gz

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    Before going this route, make sure the module isn't available already as a package by your distribution. It is better to have the package management system keep track (and update, and ...) of stuff. Doing it by hand doesn't scale very far. Commented Feb 26, 2013 at 17:02

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Instead of giving cpan a URL, give a module name:

$ sudo cpan App::Xml_grep2

The only reasons I can think of to give a URL instead is if your module lives outside the CPAN directory, or you need a specific older version, rather than the current version.

I also find it odd that cpan is using FTP when you gave it an HTTP URL. I don't know why that is, but that leads you to the real problem, which is that it looks like it's trying active FTP and failing, probably because of a firewall that only works with passive FTP. The way out of this trap is to force cpan to use passive FTP.

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