[Bioperl-l] Problem while downloading bioperl on windows 2000

[Chris Fields]

The source installation method (using nmake) still works, although don't be
surprised if it decides to crash out at the end.  It usually doesn't mater
by that point as Bioperl will be installed.  I haven't used this in a long
time but I don't think anything has changed to cause problems with
installation using this method.

Out of curiosity, has anyone tried using MinGW's make or other Win32 make
versions besides nmake to do this?  I'm thinking along the lines for testing
purposes using 'make test,' as nmake was always a bit testy.

Christopher Fields
Postdoctoral Researcher - Switzer Lab
Dept. of Biochemistry
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 

-----Original Message-----
From: bioperl-l-bounces at portal.open-bio.org
[mailto:bioperl-l-bounces at portal.open-bio.org] On Behalf Of Barry Moore
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 9:57 AM
To: radhika.narayanan at siritech.com; bioperl-l at bioperl.org
Subject: RE: [Bioperl-l] Problem while downloading bioperl on windows 2000

Radhika-

That is odd.  Is is possible that your network connection is down?  What
happens if you do something like 'ppm>search CGI'?  You could download
the ppd files from their respective repositories, store them locally,
and add another local ppm repository, but that would be a pita and you
certainly shouldn't have to do that.  Since it sounds like you've just
got ActivePerl running, try installing some other packages like
IO::String, Text::Wrap or HTML::Parser.  Any luck with those?

Finally, if you can't get that to work, you can compile and install
BioPerl from source.  You'll need to install the dependencies first.
You can find a list of these in http://bioperl.org/Core/Latest/INSTALL.
If ppm isn't working you'll have to install these from source as well.
This process will take some work and patience, but theoretically it can
be done on Windows - although I've never done a complete bioperl
installation this way, I've install a lot of other modules this way and
it does work).  Basically you'll do this:

1. Get nmake the windows c comiler from:
(http://download.microsoft.com/download/vc15/Patch/1.52/W95/EN-US/Nmake1
5.exe) and put it somewhere in your path.
2. Get the standard bioperl installation document from
http://bioperl.org/Core/Latest/INSTALL
3. Installation of perl modules from source basically involves four
steps:
	perl Makefile.pl
	nmake
	nmake test
	nmake install
3. Download and install each dependency from www.cpan.org.  Some of them
may have their own dependencies, and you so you will have to read the
documentation for each one.
4. Download and install the bioperl distribution.

Barry

-----Original Message-----
From: bioperl-l-bounces at portal.open-bio.org
[mailto:bioperl-l-bounces at portal.open-bio.org] On Behalf Of
radhika.narayanan at siritech.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 9:43 PM
To: bioperl-l at bioperl.org
Subject: [Bioperl-l] Problem while downloading bioperl on windows 2000

Dear Sir,
I downloaded the Active perl from
http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/ and downloaded the
5.6.1.638 ans also 5.6.1.813 with MSI for windows. I installed active
perl
with all default options. I opend a command prompt (Menus Start->Run and
type cmd) and ran the PPM shell (C:\>ppm).

Added two new PPM repositories with the following commands:

      ppm> rep add Bioperl http://bioperl.org/DIST

      ppm> rep add Kobes http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms

      ppm> rep add Bribes http://www.Bribes.org/perl/ppm

After which i gave another command as mentioned in the guide ppm> search
Bioperl. With this command it threw a message saying that it could not
find
any matches to bioperl.
Hence now am unable to install bioperl for windows 2000 on my machine.

i shall be greatful if you could  give solutions to solve this problem
asap.

Regards,
Radhika.N


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