[Bioperl-l] Installing BioPerl on New mac 10.6.4

Matt Estep mcestep at gmail.com
Sun Oct 17 02:59:24 UTC 2010


Thank you both. I think this has solved my troubles.

Matt

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Bill Stephens <grapeguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Matt,
>
> I just installed on OSX 10.6.3.  Definitely use sudo to perform the install.
>
> I actually used the PPM install.  I used this command to start PPM: sudo
> perl -MCPAN -e shell
>
> http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Installing_Bioperl_for_Unix#INSTALLING_BIOPERL_THE_EASY_WAY_USING_CPAN
>
> Thanks,
> Bill S.
> Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
> Ohio State University
>
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Scott Cain <scott at scottcain.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Matt,
>>
>> Usually, when ./Build install fails to create a directory or file it
>> is because the user that executed the script didn't have permission to
>> perform that action.  Did you use "sudo" when you executed the install
>> command?
>>
>> Scott
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Matt Estep <mcestep at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > When running the ./build install script I get an error because it can
>> > not make a directory in /usr/local/share/man/man3  I looked around a
>> > bit and I have a file titled /usr/share/man/man3. I am guessing the
>> > script does not know how to skip the local bit of the first line.
>> >
>> > Can you tell me how to run the script so that it will make the file in
>> > the right place. I am guessing the file struture of the new mac is a
>> > little different.
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance for any help.
>> >
>> > Matt
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