[Bioperl-l] install Perl

[Simon Andrews]

On 4 Jul 2008, at 15:00, Tran Trang wrote:

> Dear:
>
> I followed the instruction "INSTALLING BIOPERL THE EASY WAY USING
> 'Build.PL'" at the website
> http://bio.perl.org/wiki/Installing_Bioperl_for_Unix for installing  
> the
> BIOPERL package. When I do the command
>
>> perl Build.PL
>
> I obtained the following lines. I seems that is not good and I did  
> not win
> to install this package? I have the same problem when installing
> BIOPERL-RUN package.
>
>
> Files=26, Tests=750, 14 wallclock secs ( 5.77 cusr +  8.16 csys =  
> 13.93 CPU)
>   /usr/bin/make test -- OK
> Running make install
> /usr/bin/perl Build --makefile_env_macros 1 install
> mkdir /usr/local/man/man1: Permission non accord�e at
> /usr/share/perl/5.8/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 112

It looks like you're running this as a user who doesn't have enough  
permissions to install the perl modules into the necessary system  
directories.  All the tests are OK, you just can't copy the files at  
the end.

Try running it as root (either directly or via sudo) and it should  
work OK.

TTFN

Simon.