[Bioperl-l] bioperl on Mac OSX

[Arya Akmal]

Hello-

  I've had some trouble installing the bioperl bundle on Mac OSX 
(specifically 10.3.7). I've tried both though cpan and by downloading 
the  bioperl tarfile and making it. The problem is that a large number 
of the tests fail. I can do a forced install, but find that a 
significant part of the functionality is missing ... as an example, the 
HTML HeadParser.pm module is missing, so I cannot do remote NCBI BLAST 
queries. Is this a common problem on OSX platforms, and are there any 
workarounds?

thanks.