[Bioperl-l] Failed Istallation

Chris Fields cjfields at illinois.edu
Fri Jan 9 08:09:29 EST 2009


Forgot to add, if I can get it working I may try this on an old winXP  
setup in the lab.

-c

On Jan 9, 2009, at 7:04 AM, Chris Fields wrote:

> On Jan 9, 2009, at 2:11 AM, Wesley Arthur wrote:
>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Fields" <cjfields at illinois.edu 
>> >
>> To: "BioPerl List" <bioperl-l at lists.open-bio.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 3:53 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] [ANNOUCEMENT] BioPerl 1.6 RC2
>
> ...
>> Dear Chris,
>>               Thank you for the latest release of RC 1.5.9_2 with  
>> the ActiveState PPM.  My attempt to download this has failed.  I am  
>> using Windowas Vista and Activeperl 5.8.8.824.  The status tab   
>> diplayed the following;
>>
>> Synchronizing Database ...
>>
>> Downloading ActiveState Package Repository packlist ... done
>>
>> Updating ActiveState Package Repository database ... done
>>
>> ...
>> Generating HTML for Error-0.17015 ... done
>>
>> Updating files in site area ... failed
>>
>> Installing 34 packages failed
>>
>> ERROR: File conflict for 'C:/Perl/html/site/lib/Bio/Align/ 
>> AlignI.html'.
>>
>>  The package bioperl has already installed a file that package  
>> BioPerl
>>
>>  wants to install.
>
> Do you have an old 'bioperl' PPM installed (1.4, 1.5.2)?  We are  
> calling the package BioPerl now (note capitalization), which is a  
> giveaway (the above message has both 'bioperl' and 'BioPerl').  Try  
> uninstalling the older bioperl PPM first, then installing BioPerl.
>
> I wondered if this would be a problem, but it doesn't appear to  
> affect anything other than PPM installation.  I'll check in with  
> ActiveState on this to see if there is a solution.
>
> chris
>
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