[Bioperl-l] Installation on OS X Lion

[Chris Fields]

Interesting, since GD::SVG requires GD.  Anyway, glad to know it's working for you!

chris

On Aug 24, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Miguel A. Amat wrote:

> Thanks for all the help; I finally got it to work.  Here are the steps I took:
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> 	• upgraded CPAN and used latest version of BioPerl 
> 	• installed dependencies in interactive mode, but GD failed.
> 	• Quit the installation and tried “install GD-SVG”;  this one seems to have less functionality than GD, but it worked.  
> 	• Installed Bio::Perl.  
> 	• Then, installed Bio::ASN1::EntrezGene
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> Best.
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> On Aug 24, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Scott Cain wrote:
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>> Hi Miguel,
>> 
>> Did you try the installer for snow leopard on sourceforge:
>> 
>>  http://sourceforge.net/projects/gmod/files/Generic%20Genome%20Browser/libgd-MacOSX/
>> 
>> I don't know if it will work on lion but I don't have a copy of lion yet to try it out on.
>> 
>> Scott
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>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Aug 23, 2011, at 11:25 PM, Miguel A Amat <miquel.amat at me.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks for the feedback, Chris. Now I just need to get GD to install ...
>>> 
>>> On Aug 23, 2011, at 8:14 PM, Chris Fields <cjfields at illinois.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Try installing the latest version from CPAN; this bypasses the Bio::ASN1::EntrezGene req.  DBD::mysql is only needed if you intend on using modules requiring that functionality.
>>>> 
>>>> chris
>>>> 
>>>> On Aug 23, 2011, at 3:11 PM, Miguel A. Amat wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I am trying to install bioperl on mac os x 10.7 but ran into problems with the dependency packages Bio::ASN1::EntrezGene and DBD::mysql.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I am running the latest version of CPAN and perl -v 5.12.3 and the BioPerl-1.6.1 package.  The installation was being conducted interactively through via the "perl Build.PL" command.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Can you provide some help, or suggest an alternative way of installing BioPerl?
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