[Bioperl-l] Problem installing bioperl-1.5.2_102

[Sukhinder Sandhu]

Hi
I am trying to install bioperl on my MACOSX and having problems. I try to
following the instructions both at the www.tc.umn.edu..... And in the README
and INSTALL files in the bioperl folder that I downloaded.
The error I get is the following: (end part of the output is copied)
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t/versions........ok
t/xs..............skipped
        all skipped: C_support not enabled
Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
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t/compat.t     5  1280    60    5   8.33%  25-28 31
4 tests and 31 subtests skipped.
Failed 1/22 test scripts, 95.45% okay. 5/683 subtests failed, 99.27% okay.
make: *** [test] Error 2
  /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK
Running make install
  make test had returned bad status, won't install without force
Couldn't install Module::Build, giving up.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ModuleBuildBioperl.pm line 51.
Compilation failed in require at Build.PL line 14.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Build.PL line 14.
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I am not able to figure out whats' going wrong.
And when I try to run the CPAN, I get the follwing error. I have no idea how
to fix these. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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[Sukhinders-Computer:~/Desktop/bioperl-1.5.2_102] sand60% perl -MCPAN -e
shell  Terminal does not support AddHistory.

There seems to be running another CPAN process (pid 7207).  Contacting...
Lockfile /Users/sand60/.cpan/.lock not writeable by you. Cannot proceed.
    On UNIX try:
    rm /Users/sand60/.cpan/.lock
  and then rerun us.
 at -e line 1
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And doing what it says, removing some lock file doesn't help. I am wondering
if all this has something to do with having root priveleges on the system
and if so , is there an alternative? Thanks


sukhinder