[Bioperl-l] Need help installing Bioperl on Windows

[Scott Cain]

Hi Joe,

I just ran into the same problem when installing GBrowse on Windows.
You need to add yet another repository: tcool
http://ppm.tcool.org/archives/  which provides DB_File.

Scott


On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Corbo, Joseph
<jcorbo at pathology.wustl.edu> wrote:
> Greetings.  I am trying to install Bioperl on my Windows XP machine and
> am having a problem I would greatly appreciate some help with.  I am
> following the directions for installing Bioperl as given on the Bioperl
> website page "Installing Bioperl on Windows" under the section
> "Installation using the Perl Package Manager".  I added the three new
> repositories (http://bioperl.org/DIST/ etc.) as they instruct.  Then
> when I try to install Bioperl either using the GUI installation or the
> command line sequence "ppm-shell, search bioperl, install [number]" I
> get the following error message which I don't know how to fix:
>
>
>
> WARNING: Can't find any package that provides DB_File:: for
> Bundle-BioPerl-Core
>
>
>
> bioperl depends on Bundle-BioPerl-Core
>
> bioperl depends on SVG
>
> bioperl depends on GD-SVG
>
> bioperl depends on Spreadsheet-ParseExcel
>
> bioperl depends on XML-SAX
>
> bioperl depends on AcePerl
>
> bioperl depends on XML-SAX-ExpatXS
>
> bioperl depends on SOAP-Lite
>
> bioperl depends on SVG-Graph
>
> bioperl depends on Bio-ASN1-EntrezGene
>
> bioperl depends on XML-XPath
>
> bioperl depends on Convert-Binary-C
>
> bioperl depends on XML-Twig
>
> bioperl depends on Set-Scalar
>
> bioperl depends on Text-Shellwords
>
> bioperl depends on Data-Stag
>
> bioperl depends on libxml-perl
>
> bioperl depends on XML-Writer
>
> bioperl depends on Graph
>
> bioperl depends on Class-AutoClass
>
> bioperl depends on Clone
>
> bioperl depends on XML-DOM-XPath
>
> bioperl depends on IO-stringy
>
> bioperl depends on OLE-Storage_Lite
>
> bioperl depends on XML-NamespaceSupport
>
> bioperl depends on Cache-Cache
>
> bioperl depends on MIME-Lite
>
> bioperl depends on Math-Derivative
>
> bioperl depends on Math-Spline
>
> bioperl depends on Statistics-Descriptive
>
> bioperl depends on Tree-DAG_Node
>
> bioperl depends on Heap
>
> bioperl depends on Test-Deep
>
> bioperl depends on XML-DOM
>
> bioperl depends on XML-XPathEngine
>
> bioperl depends on Error
>
> bioperl depends on Email-Date-Format
>
> bioperl depends on MIME-Types
>
> bioperl depends on MailTools
>
> bioperl depends on Test-Tester
>
> bioperl depends on Test-NoWarnings
>
> bioperl depends on XML-RegExp
>
> bioperl depends on Test-Pod
>
> bioperl depends on TimeDate
>
>
>
>
>
> Any thoughts on how to fix this?  Thanks, Joe Corbo
>
>
>
>
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Ontario Institute for Cancer Research