[Bioperl-l] using BioPerl.ppd with ActiveState

[Kevin Clancy]

Hi Folks
I am using ActiveState Perl v5.6.1, binary build 633, built 21:33:05 Jun
17 2002
I have used ppm3 to load the latest bioperl distribution on the
ActiveState repository site.

>ppm3 describe bioperl 
======================
Name: bioperl
Version: 1.2
Author: Ewan Birney (birney at sanger.ac.uk)
Title: bioperl
Abstract: Bioinformatics Toolkit
Location: Activestate PPM2 Repository
Available Platforms:
	1. i686-linux-thread-multi
	2. MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
======================

The Bio folder is installed under ActiveState_Home\site\lib\Bio and
contains all the requirsite files. Everything appeared to have installed
correctly.

The @INC is set to $ACTIVESTATE_HOME/lib;$ACTIVESTATE_HOME/site/lib;.

PERL5LIB is not set for the Windows box.

I'm developing in Komodo and running the following script:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Bio::SeqIO;

my $in  = Bio::SeqIO->new('-file' => "inputfilename",
                         '-format' => 'GenBank');
my $out = Bio::SeqIO->new('-file' => ">outputfilename",
                         '-format' => 'BSML');
while ( my $seq = $in->next_seq() ) {
    $out->write_seq($seq);
}

I get the following error message:
Can't locate Bio/SeqIO.pm in @INC (@INC contains: E:\Program
Files\Komodo-2.0 E:/Program Files/ActiveState/lib E:/Program
Files/ActiveState/site/lib .) at
E:\Projects\Perl\BioBus\DataConverter\DataConverter.pl line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
E:\Projects\Perl\BioBus\DataConverter\DataConverter.pl line 4. 

So I could always call the Bio::* distribution directly or copy the
whole Bio:: distribution into my project folder, but I would prefer to
fix the problem with Bio::* being recognised as being in the
$ACTIVESTATE_HOME/site/lib path. Any suggestions on how to correct this?
Thanks
kevin  


Kevin Clancy, PhD
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