[Bioperl-l] Bioperl installation help

[Christel Chehoud]

Dear BioPerl,
Thank you for creating such useful code. Unfortunately, every time I
try to install Bioperl, it takes me a long time and is a challenging
ordeal :( I am a new MAC user and was not able to download bioperl
using CPAN. Here is the error I am getting:

ERROR: Can't create '/usr/local/bin'
Do not have write permissions on '/usr/local/bin'
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 at /Users/Christel/.cpan/build/BioPerl-1.6.0-DiZ0rN/Bio/Root/Build.pm line 902
  CJFIELDS/BioPerl-1.6.0.tar.gz
  ./Build install  -- NOT OK
----
  You may have to su to root to install the package
  (Or you may want to run something like
    o conf make_install_make_command 'sudo make'
  to raise your permissions.Warning (usually harmless): 'YAML' not
installed, will not store persistent state
Failed during this command:
 CMUNGALL/Data-Stag-0.11.tar.gz               : make NO
 CJFIELDS/BioPerl-1.6.0.tar.gz                : make_test FAILED but
failure ignored because 'force' in effect


so I did:
cpan> o conf make_install_make_command 'sudo make'
followed by
cpan> o conf commit

and started over..I got the same number of errors as last time (so I
decided not to force install this time). do you have any suggestions:

63 tests and 305 subtests skipped.
Failed 11/329 test scripts. 981/17708 subtests failed.
Files=329, Tests=17708, 127 wallclock secs (104.69 cusr + 12.51 csys =
117.20 CPU)
Failed 11/329 test programs. 981/17708 subtests failed.
  CJFIELDS/BioPerl-1.6.1.tar.gz
  ./Build test -- NOT OK
//hint// to see the cpan-testers results for installing this module, try:
  reports CJFIELDS/BioPerl-1.6.1.tar.gz
Warning (usually harmless): 'YAML' not installed, will not store
persistent state
Running Build install
  make test had returned bad status, won't install without force
Failed during this command:
 CMUNGALL/Data-Stag-0.11.tar.gz               : make NO
 FLORA/ExtUtils-Manifest-1.60.tar.gz          : make NO
 CJFIELDS/BioPerl-1.6.1.tar.gz                : make_test NO


Thanks a lot for your time and help.  I appreciate it.

Thank you,
Christel