[Bioperl-l] installing BioPerl from CPAN

[Jonathan Epstein]

Thanks, Malcolm,

This worked for me as well.

It would be great if these instructions were posted on
   http://www.BioPerl.org/Core/Latest/index.shtml

- Jonathan

At 12:37 PM 3/9/2001 , Malcolm Cook wrote:
>I've had success with
>
>cpan> install "B/BI/BIRNEY/bioperl-0.7.0.tar.gz"
>
>after first installing the bundle
>
>Malcolm E. Cook
>BioInfomatics
>PPGx, Inc.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: bioperl-l-admin@bioperl.org [mailto:bioperl-l-admin@bioperl.org]On
>Behalf Of Chris Dagdigian
>Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 4:00 PM
>To: Jonathan Epstein
>Cc: Bioperl General discussion
>Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] installing BioPerl from CPAN
>
>
>Bundle::BioPerl will only install the dependencies. It will NOT
>install the bioperl suite. This is pretty clear (I hope) on the website
>and in the README docs for Bundle::BioPerl.
>
>I don't believe that is is easy to get and/or install the
>bioperl-0.7.0.tar.gz file via a CPAN.pm shell. I've spent a few minutes
>fooling around with this and had no success.
>
>I will correct this on the website.
>
>Anyone else have any luck CPAN.pm and "readme bioperl" or "get bioperl"?
>
>
>
>-Chris
>
>
>
>On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Jonathan Epstein wrote:
>
> > OK, here's a dumb question.  I see that BioPerl 0.7 has made it onto CPAN:
> >    http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=bioperl
> >
> > But how do you install it after having typed "perl -MCPAN -e shell"?
> >
> > I've tried "install Bio", "install BioPerl" and "install
> > BioPerl::Bundle".  The last one is the only one which actually does
> > something, although I'm getting lots of warnings and errors in my system
> > which had several 0.7 pre-tests installed pretty successfully.  But I'm
>not
> > convinced that any of these CPAN commands is correct.
> >
> > If the answer is not obvious, I think that it should be added to the
>"CPAN"
> > section of:
> >    http://www.bioperl.org/Core/Latest/
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > -Jonathan
> >
> >
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