[Bioperl-l] ActiveState Perl problems

Lincoln Stein lincoln.stein at gmail.com
Wed Feb 6 15:03:31 UTC 2008


Sadly, bioperl still won't install under ActiveState 5.10 because it can't
find a repository with the SOAP::Lite prerequisite.

Lincoln

On Feb 5, 2008 10:06 PM, Chris Fields <cjfields at uiuc.edu> wrote:

> According to this page you can remove the <ARCHITECTURE> tags and it
> will assume the files are for any OS:
>
>
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePerl/5.10/lib/ActivePerl/PPM/PPD.html#ppd_xml_format
>
> I have moved the old package.xml to package.bak and replaced it with
> one w/o those tags; I can now pick it up on Mac OS X using ActiveState
> perl 5.10:
>
> ppm> search *
> Downloading bioperl.org packlist...not modified
> 1: Bio-ASN1-EntrezGene v1.09
> 2: Bundle-BioPerl-Core v1.5.2_100
> 3: Bundle-BioPerl-Db v1.5.2_100
> 4: Bundle-BioPerl-Network v1.5.2_100
> 5: Bundle-BioPerl-Run v1.5.2_100
> 6: Class-AutoClass v1.01
> 7: GD-SVG v0.25
> 8: Graph v0.80
> 9: SVG-Graph v0.01
> 10: bioperl v1.5.2_100
> 11: bioperl-db v1.5.2_100
> 12: bioperl-network v1.5.2_100
> 13: bioperl-run v1.5.2_100
>
> I'll add ARCHITECTURE versioning tags back when we know it's working
> (maybe tomorrow, when I can get on to WinXP to test it).
>
> chris
>
> On Feb 5, 2008, at 5:43 PM, Lincoln Stein wrote:
>
> > Hi Scott, Bioperl folk,
> >
> > I'm afraid that the ActiveState ppm install of BioPerl no longer
> > works.
> > Using the current ActiveState (perl version 5.10), I added the Bribes,
> > Kobes, BioPerl-Regular Releases, and BioPerl-Release Candidates
> > repositories. However, when I synched up, all but the Bribes reps
> > showed up
> > empty in the ppm tool.
> >
> > In addition, there's nothing in the release candidate rep any
> > longer. I used
> > to use this to get at Bioperl 1.5.
> >
> > Perhaps the architecture needs to be changed?
> >
> > Lincoln
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Lincoln D. Stein
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> > SANDRA MICHELSEN, AT michelse at cshl.edu
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>
> Christopher Fields
> Postdoctoral Researcher
> Lab of Dr. Robert Switzer
> Dept of Biochemistry
> University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
>
>
>
>


-- 
Lincoln D. Stein
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
1 Bungtown Road
Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724
(516) 367-8380 (voice)
(516) 367-8389 (fax)
FOR URGENT MESSAGES & SCHEDULING,
PLEASE CONTACT MY ASSISTANT,
SANDRA MICHELSEN, AT michelse at cshl.edu



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