cpan> i test::simple
Fetching with LWP:
http://ppm.activestate.com/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
LWP failed with code[404] message[Not Found]
Warning: no success downloading 'C:\Perl\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp8008'. Giving up on it.
Fetching with LWP:
http://cpan.perl.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
LWP failed with code[404] message[Not Found]
Warning: no success downloading 'C:\Perl\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp8008'. Giving up on it.
Warning: no success downloading 'C:\Perl\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp8008'. Giving up on it.
No external ftp command available

Fetching with LWP:
http://ppm.activestate.com/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
LWP failed with code[404] message[Not Found]
Warning: no success downloading 'C:\Perl\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp8008'. Giving up on it.
Fetching with LWP:
http://cpan.perl.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
LWP failed with code[404] message[Not Found]
Warning: no success downloading 'C:\Perl\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp8008'. Giving up on it.
Warning: no success downloading 'C:\Perl\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp8008'. Giving up on it.
No external ftp command available

Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file
(http://ppm.activestate.com/CPAN, http://cpan.perl.org) are valid. The
urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o conf urllist push ftp://myurl/'

Could not fetch authors/01mailrc.txt.gz