[Bioperl-l] help_to_acces_clustal-w

[Dave Messina]

Hi Punit,

Please make sure that you use 'reply to all' when responding so that this
gets seen on the BioPerl mailing list, too.


On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 1:25 PM, punit kumar <punit_vergoboy2004 at yahoo.co.in>
wrote:

> in actually i use the perl version 5.6 and i have  tried before to install
> the bioperl on the windows workstation before.
>
> but in actually it was so painfull i do not wanna change my prior version
> of the perl which is used by my
>  and wanna install too so that is my problem.
>


I have never tried installing Perl on Windows, but if you read the BioPerl
installation guide for
Windows<http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Installing_Bioperl_on_Windows>that
I pointed you to, you'll see that a straightforward ActivePerl
installer is available. So you shouldn't have to install Perl from the
source code.

Again, I haven't done it personally, but I would expect that the ActivePerl
installer allows you to specify where it installs Perl. This would enable
you to keep your existing Perl 5.6 installation and have a separate Perl
5.8.x installation for use with BioPerl.

According to the BioPerl Windows installation guide, once you install
ActivePerl, there is a Perl Package Manager with a graphical interface that
makes it very easy to install the latest version of BioPerl.


Dave