[Bioperl-l] problem with installation of Bioperl1.4 on Windows XPPC using ActivePerl PPM

[Nathan Haigh]

Chris Fields wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bioperl-l-bounces at lists.open-bio.org [mailto:bioperl-l-
>> bounces at lists.open-bio.org] On Behalf Of szhan at uoguelph.ca
>> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 2:56 PM
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>> Subject: [Bioperl-l] problem with installation of Bioperl1.4 on Windows
>> XPPC using ActivePerl PPM
>>
>> Dear Bioperl users,
>> I have downloaded ActivePerl-5.8.8.819 MSI (x86), and installed it on
>> Windows XP PC successfully. I used GUI PPM to install Bioperl 1.4 by
>> opening GUI PPM, choosing Bioperl1.4 then marking for install but got
>> error as below:
>> ERROR: Installing File-Spec-0.82 would downgrade File::Spec from
>> version 3.12 to 0.82 and File::Spec::Functions from version 1.3 to 1.1
>> and File::Spec::Mac from version 1.4 to 1.2 and File::Spec::OS2 from
>> version 1.2 to 1.1 and File::Spec::Unix from version 1.5 to 1.2 and
>> File::Spec::VMS from version 1.4 to 1.1 and File::Spec::Win32 from
>> version 1.6 to 1.2
>> Why did I get the error? Could you please help me out?
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Josh
>>     
>
> I haven't used the new PPM GUI with ActivePerl 5.8.819 yet, but it's strange
> that it says those will be downgraded.  Have you tried the command line PPM
> to install?  I know it's still available with the distribution.
>
> Christopher Fields
> Postdoctoral Researcher - Switzer Lab
> Dept. of Biochemistry
> University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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I've been looking at this a little bit today. It is weird! Firstly, I
thought new ppm4 can't actually find a File::Spec module other than
version 0.82 and thought it might be due to the addition of new tags to
ppd files (<REQUIRE> and <PROVIDE>) in order to better track
dependencies etc. However, I don't have File::Spec installed, or
PathTools so I have no idea where it gets the version numbers from!

I would install a slightly earlier version of Perl which still uses
PPM3. All versions >= 5.8.8.818 will only contain PPM4, so either
download 5.6.1 or download an old release of 5.8.8 from here:
http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePerl/Windows/5.8/

Sorry I couldn't be too much help.
Nathan