[Bioperl-l] bp 1.2.3 ppm install fails

[Chris Fields]

Scott,

Randy Kobes has a number of PPM's for Windows that ActiveState doesn't 
provide, for both Perl 5.6 and 5.8.  I believe ActiveState has an automated 
build engine that will not post PPM's to the PPM depositories unless they 
successfully build (no failed tests).  The only other way to get them to 
post is to specifically ask for it on ASPN, and that may take them a 
while.  I think I picked up most of the required external modules from 
there, including GD (v 2.07).

If using ppm3:

rep add Kobes http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/cgi-bin/ppmserver?urn:/PPMServer

I think ppm2 is similar, but I haven't used it in a while.

Chris Fields

At 08:32 AM 10/7/2003, you wrote:
>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.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bioperl-l-bounces at portal.open-bio.org
> > [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
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