[Bioperl-l] Error during installation of 1.6.1

[Mark A. Jensen]

Is it really "q install q" ? Then you probably need to do some cpan
configuring. It's possible your original CPAN/Config.pm file is 
lost or not where cpan expects it to be after your upgrade.
Try this

$ cpan
cpan> o conf make /usr/bin/make
cpan> o conf make_install_make_command /usr/bin/make
cpan> o conf commit

and rerun the install. If you get other strangeness, I would check
the values of all the config variables by listing with

cpan> o conf

BTW, by the message I infer you've got v1.93 of CPAN; maybe
upgrading to the current version (v1.9402) would solve some problems.
cheers
MAJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wollenberg, Kurt (NIH/NIAID) [C]" <wollenbergk at niaid.nih.gov>
To: <bioperl-l at lists.open-bio.org>
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 4:47 PM
Subject: [Bioperl-l] Error during installation of 1.6.1


> Hello:
> 
> I am trying to install BioPerl (after a recent system upgrade) and am
> getting the following error:
> 
> "Catching error: "Can't execute q install q: No such file or directory at
> /Library/Perl/Updates/5.8.8/CPAN/Shell.pm line 1755\cJ" at
> /Library/Perl/Updates/5.8.8/CPAN.pm line 391".
> 
> Previous to this I've run the CPAN upgrade, etc. as recommended on the
> Installation for Unix page. This happens when I try to do the actual
> install, both vanilla and "force"ed. I'm attempting this on a Mac G5
> workstation running 10.5.8. Any clues what I may be missing or doing
> incorrectly?
> 
> Cheers,
> Kurt Wollenberg, Ph.D.
> Contractor - Lockheed Martin
> Phylogenetics Specialist
> Computational Biology Section
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