[Bioperl-l] Problems with installing bioperl using PPM3

Barry Moore barry.moore at genetics.utah.edu
Thu Apr 8 14:07:24 EDT 2004


Omid-

Installing IO-String from source with nmake should work fine.  You might 
want to add Randy Kobes resposity (http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/) 
to your list.  I'm pretty sure that he has IO-String, and some others 
that ActiveState doesn't have.

Barry

omid at rogers.com wrote:

>Thanks for the reply Chris.. I installed perl 5.6.1 Build 635 and when using PPM3 I encountered a new set of problems.
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>it seems that bioperl-1.4 does not work for for PPM3 on build 633 but I was able to install an ealier version of bioperl "Bioinformatics Toolkit".
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>with build 635 it seems that ppm3 itself has problems installing some modules. some bioperl dependencies were able to be installed while others that worked with build 633 were not.
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>Also, I encountered a problem installing "IO-String"
>with both versions. This module is one of the listed dependencies for bioperl.
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>What I had to do in that case was download the IO-String module from CPAN in a temp directory and run nmake etc on it. Not sure if this is the proper way of doing things??
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>Thanks
>Omid
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>>From: Chris Fields <cjfields at uiuc.edu>
>>Date: 2004/04/07 Wed PM 05:22:55 EDT
>>To: <omid at rogers.com>,  <bioperl-l at bioperl.org>
>>Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] Problems with installing bioperl using PPM3
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>>Everything works when using ActiveState Perl 5.8.3 Build 809, which comes 
>>with PPM3 as the default package manager.  It may be due to the earlier PPM 
>>version.  I checked the ActiveState web site documentation for ActivePerl 
>>5.6.1 build 635 (the newest version of the 5.6.1 branch) and there is a bug 
>>fix listed for PPM3.
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>>The following link describes a problem very like yours and is from the PPM 
>>bug database (http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19749&submit=Go) 
>>and is likely the bug that is fixed in 5.6.1 build 635, so you might want 
>>to upgrade to that version or to the newest 5.8.3 release for the fix.
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>>Chris
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>>At 02:08 PM 4/7/2004, omid at rogers.com wrote:
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>>>Hello all,
>>>
>>>I have ActiveState perl 5.6.1 BUILD 633 installed on a local machine 
>>>running windows 2000 and I do the following:
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>>>I type "ppm3" at the command prompt
>>>then type "search bioperl" (the repository is set to 
>>>http://www.bioperl.org/DIST/).
>>>
>>>a listing is displayed with numbers and when I attemp to issue the command 
>>>"describe 20" or describe "package name" I get an error saying:
>>>
>>>Can't call method "name" without a package or object reference at 
>>>E:\Perl\bin/ppm3-bin line 4265, <$__ANONIO__> line 9.
>>>
>>>I don't know what it means. I searched the bioperl site and looked at 
>>>various installation documents but nothing seems to address this type of 
>>>problem.
>>>
>>>Any help you are able to provide is greatly appreciated.
>>>Thanks
>>>Omid
>>>
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