[Bioperl-l] Problems with installing bioperl using PPM3

Wed Apr 14 10:00:23 EDT 2004

Thanks for the Reply Chris...

I managed to get things working for the time being. 

I am reading the the PPM instructions provided by the Activestate and getting a feel for how things work.

I tried the first method you mentioned ie setting up a local repository:

Here is what I did.

1) I run PPM3 at command prompt.
2) rep add my_local "E:/Perl/Local_rep/"

I got this error message:

"Can't locate object method "host" via package "URI::_foreign" (perhaps you forgot to load "URI::_foreign"?) at E:/Perl/site/lib/PPM/Repository/Local.pm line 18, <FIN> line 3."

I check to see if "URI" is installed (ie query *) and it was. I checked to see if there are any upgraded to URI and there was not one available.

I don't know if you if have come across this type of errors in the past.

Another question I had was can we use the CPAN module to download and install packages under a windows environment or are we restricted to using PPM from activestate?

Many Thanks
Omid

> 
> From: Chris Fields <cjfields at uiuc.edu>
> Date: 2004/04/09 Fri PM 09:53:08 EDT
> To: <omid at rogers.com>
> CC: <Bioperl-l at bioperl.org>
> Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] Problems with installing bioperl using PPM3
> 
> Not quite sure if this made the Bioperl-l list, so I'll repost the 
> general answer here.
> 
> On Apr 8, 2004, at 7:58 AM, <omid at rogers.com> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for the reply Chris.. I installed perl 5.6.1 Build 635 and when 
> > using PPM3 I encountered a new set of problems.
> >
> >
> > it seems that bioperl-1.4 does not work for for PPM3 on build 633 but 
> > I was able to install an ealier version of bioperl "Bioinformatics 
> > Toolkit".
> >
> > with build 635 it seems that ppm3 itself has problems installing some 
> > modules. some bioperl dependencies were able to be installed while 
> > others that worked with build 633 were not.
> >
> > Also, I encountered a problem installing "IO-String"
> > with both versions. This module is one of the listed dependencies for 
> > bioperl.
> 
> This may be due to the perl build failing during ActiveState's 
> automated packaging procedures.  If you check the build status of the 
> IO-String module at ActiveState's PPM repository site (specifically, 
> http://ppm.activestate.com/BuildStatus/5.6-I.html), it lists it as 
> failing.  However, the zipped PPM package is available from the same 
> website(http://ppm.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/6xx-builds-only/).  
> You can install this one of two ways:
> 
> 1)  Create a local repository from a directory ('rep add local_rep 
> "C:\Perl\local"' or something similar).  Decompress the zipped archive 
> directly into the directory path listed (i.e. the file with the ppd 
> extension should not be in a subdirectory under the repository 
> directory; other files may be).  Search the local directory and install 
> from there.
> 
> 2)  Decompress the archive into a temp directory.  Run PPM3 ('ppm 
> IO-String') from a command prompt within the directory.
> 
> I use the first method myself (only have to set up the directory once).
> 
> > What I had to do in that case was download the IO-String module from 
> > CPAN in a temp directory and run nmake etc on it. Not sure if this is 
> > the proper way of doing things??
> 
> That works as well, but always make sure to run 'nmake test' to make 
> sure the module will work.  Some modules (usually older, less 
> maintained ones) tend to fail for various reasons, mainly due to 
> included C source code that won't compile in the Windows environment.  
> Also, nmake has a tendency to sometimes crash even when it works, so it 
> may be hard to tell if you get success!
> 
> The main reason to use PPM3 is b/c PPM3 makes it much easier to install 
> and upgrade modules (somewhat like a mini version of rpm in Linux, if 
> you're familiar with it).  The program keeps track of installed modules 
> and is capable of producing nicely formatted HTML from POD; if you add 
> modules with nmake, PPM3 will not find them (although you might be able 
> to rebuild the PPM3 database).
> 
> > Thanks
> > Omid
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> From: Chris Fields <cjfields at uiuc.edu>
> >> Date: 2004/04/07 Wed PM 05:22:55 EDT
> >> To: <omid at rogers.com>,  <bioperl-l at bioperl.org>
> >> Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] Problems with installing bioperl using PPM3
> >>
> >> Everything works when using ActiveState Perl 5.8.3 Build 809, which 
> >> comes
> >> with PPM3 as the default package manager.  It may be due to the 
> >> earlier PPM
> >> version.  I checked the ActiveState web site documentation for 
> >> ActivePerl
> >> 5.6.1 build 635 (the newest version of the 5.6.1 branch) and there is 
> >> a bug
> >> fix listed for PPM3.
> >>
> >> The following link describes a problem very like yours and is from 
> >> the PPM
> >> bug database 
> >> (http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19749&submit=Go)
> >> and is likely the bug that is fixed in 5.6.1 build 635, so you might 
> >> want
> >> to upgrade to that version or to the newest 5.8.3 release for the fix.
> >>
> >> Chris
> >>
> >> At 02:08 PM 4/7/2004, omid at rogers.com wrote:
> >>> Hello all,
> >>>
> >>> I have ActiveState perl 5.6.1 BUILD 633 installed on a local machine
> >>> running windows 2000 and I do the following:
> >>>
> >>> I type "ppm3" at the command prompt
> >>> then type "search bioperl" (the repository is set to
> >>> http://www.bioperl.org/DIST/).
> >>>
> >>> a listing is displayed with numbers and when I attemp to issue the 
> >>> command
> >>> "describe 20" or describe "package name" I get an error saying:
> >>>
> >>> Can't call method "name" without a package or object reference at
> >>> E:\Perl\bin/ppm3-bin line 4265, <$__ANONIO__> line 9.
> >>>
> >>> I don't know what it means. I searched the bioperl site and looked at
> >>> various installation documents but nothing seems to address this 
> >>> type of
> >>> problem.
> >>>
> >>> Any help you are able to provide is greatly appreciated.
> >>> Thanks
> >>> Omid
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 1
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> >>
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> Laboratory of Dr. Robert Switzer
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> 
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