[Bioperl-l] Failed Istallation

[Chris Fields]

On Jan 9, 2009, at 2:11 AM, Wesley Arthur wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Fields" <cjfields at illinois.edu 
> >
> To: "BioPerl List" <bioperl-l at lists.open-bio.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 3:53 AM
> Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] [ANNOUCEMENT] BioPerl 1.6 RC2

...
> Dear Chris,
>                Thank you for the latest release of RC 1.5.9_2 with  
> the ActiveState PPM.  My attempt to download this has failed.  I am  
> using Windowas Vista and Activeperl 5.8.8.824.  The status tab   
> diplayed the following;
>
> Synchronizing Database ...
>
> Downloading ActiveState Package Repository packlist ... done
>
> Updating ActiveState Package Repository database ... done
>
> ...
> Generating HTML for Error-0.17015 ... done
>
> Updating files in site area ... failed
>
> Installing 34 packages failed
>
> ERROR: File conflict for 'C:/Perl/html/site/lib/Bio/Align/ 
> AlignI.html'.
>
>   The package bioperl has already installed a file that package  
> BioPerl
>
>   wants to install.

Do you have an old 'bioperl' PPM installed (1.4, 1.5.2)?  We are  
calling the package BioPerl now (note capitalization), which is a  
giveaway (the above message has both 'bioperl' and 'BioPerl').  Try  
uninstalling the older bioperl PPM first, then installing BioPerl.

I wondered if this would be a problem, but it doesn't appear to affect  
anything other than PPM installation.  I'll check in with ActiveState  
on this to see if there is a solution.

chris