[Bioperl-l] bp 1.2.3 ppm install fails

[Scott Cain]

Brian,

As far as I can tell, the '-force' option in ppm (for perl 5.8) is only
useful for reinstalling modules that it thinks are already installed
(and even then, it doesn't always do that).  I'm not sure what a good
solution is, since I don't think the ActiveState framework allows
"optional" modules.   :-/

As a side note, I did find a libxml that I could install via ppm
elsewhere with google, but this mess means that I have to give
directions to users who want to install GBrowse via ppm how to get
libxml even though they don't need it for GBrowse.

Thanks,
Scott

On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 07:57, Brian Osborne wrote:
> Scott,
> 
> > As a side note, it seems like a bad idea to force the installation of
> every prereq module for bioperl
> 
> Definitely a bad idea, that's why Bioperl doesn't do this. In the CPAN
> shell, for example, you can do "force install". There is also a "force
> install" option in ActiveState, something like setting force-install to 1?
> Please check the ActiveState documentation and tell me if I'm wrong.
> 
> A few months ago I took a look at the "required modules" list in Bioperl and
> found that many of them were not supplied by ActiveState, just as you're
> finding.
> 
> Brian O.
> 
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> [mailto:bioperl-l-bounces at portal.open-bio.org]On Behalf Of Scott Cain
> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 4:07 PM
> To: bioperl-l at bioperl.org
> Cc: cain at cshl.org
> Subject: [Bioperl-l] bp 1.2.3 ppm install fails
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> First, thanks to the kind soul who provided the 1.2.3 version of bioperl
> as a ppm.  Unfortunately, I can't seem to get it installed due to a failed
> dependency.  While using AS Perl 5.8, it seems that none of the
> repositories know what 'libxml-perl' is, and since it is listed as a
> prerequisite in the ppd file, installation cannot continue.  Is there
> somewhere special to get that from?  At the moment, I am only searching
> the ActiveState and bioperl repositories.
> 
> As a side note, it seems like a bad idea to force the installation of
> every prereq module for bioperl.  In my case, I have no need of
> libxml-perl, but can't install bioperl for a lack of it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Scott
> 
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Scott Cain, Ph. D.                                         cain at cshl.org
GMOD Coordinator (http://www.gmod.org/)                     216-392-3087
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