[Bioperl-l] installing bioperl

Matthew A. Saunders saunders at uchicago.edu
Thu Jul 20 22:01:53 UTC 2006


In continuation to my described problem, I have just installed the 
bioperl-run file from the .tar.gz format and that was successful through 
the "perl Makefile.PL" and the "make" & "make test" phases.

It is the "bioperl core" file that is still giving me the problems 
described below.

Thanks!

Matt
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On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Matthew A. Saunders wrote:

> Dear Bioperl representative,
>
> I have been trying to install bioperl (in order to ultimately run some 
> Ensembl APIs) but I seem to be having some problems with the bioperl 
> installation.
>
> I have followed the installation directions and I get to the last steps of 
> the "make" process, yet this stage fails with the error message below. Can 
> you possibly tell me what is the problem.  I am not sure that I understand 
> the command "make", but I think that it requires that there be a file named 
> "makefile" in the given folder, when I look in my newly formed "bioperl-1.4" 
> folder there is no "makefile" in there.  Perhaps that is a problem.  If so, 
> how might I rectify the matter?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Matt
>
>
> ************************************************************* . . .
>   Enjoy the rest of bioperl, which you can use after going 'make install'
>
> Checking if your kit is complete...
> Looks good
> /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: 
> /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/DB_File/DB_File.so: 
> undefined symbol: db_version
> Running make test
>  Make had some problems, maybe interrupted? Won't test
> Running make install
>  Make had some problems, maybe interrupted? Won't install
> ***************************************************************
>
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
>                  Matthew  A. Saunders
>          UNCF-MERCK Postdoctoral Research Fellow
>
>             Dept. of Ecology and Evolution
>                 University of Chicago
>                    (773)834-3964
>                Skype: mattsaunders555
>            http://home.uchicago.edu/~saunders 
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