[Bioperl-l] How can I tell if I have certain BioPerl modules? Like Bio::SeqIO

[Chris Fields]

Chet,

In addition to the below, you should be installing BioPerl v. 1.6.1.  I have a branch created for the next point release, which I'm hoping to have released soon.

chris

On Jan 18, 2011, at 6:49 PM, Warren W. Kretzschmar wrote:

> Hi Chet,
> This is sort of a hack way to do it, but running a one-liner that
> includes the library you'd like to know if you have installed will
> throw an error if the library is not installed.
> 
> So this should run without error if Bio::SeqIO is installed on your system:
> perl -MBio::SeqIO -e 'print "Hello World\n"'
> 
> While this will throw an error that the library called Bio::S could
> not be found:
> perl -MBio::S -e 'print "Hello World\n"'
> 
> A nicer way might be to print the module's version number:
> perl -MBio::SeqIO -e 'print $Bio::SeqIO::VERSION."\n"'
> 
> Because of inheritance, I thin the version number might actually be
> the bioperl version number.
> 
> Cheers,
> Warren
> 
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Chet Seligman <cseligman at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> I am running Strawberry Perl
>> 
>> perl 5, version 12, subversion 2 (v5.12.2) built for
>> MSWin32-x64-multi-thread
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I then installed Bioperl this way:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> INSTALLING BIOPERL THE EASY WAY USING CPAN
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>   You can use the CPAN shell to install Bioperl. For example:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>     >perl -MCPAN -e shell
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>   Then find the name of the Bioperl version you want:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>     cpan>d /bioperl/
>> 
>>     CPAN: Storable loaded ok
>> 
>>     Going to read /home/bosborne/.cpan/Metadata
>> 
>>     Database was generated on Tue, 24 Feb 2004 23:55:23 GMT
>> 
>>     Distribution    B/BI/BIRNEY/bioperl-1.2.tar.gz
>> 
>>     Distribution    B/BI/BIRNEY/bioperl-1.4.tar.gz
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>   Now install:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>     cpan>install B/BI/BIRNEY/bioperl-1.4.tar.gz
>> 
>> And the installation went to completion
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Chet Seligman
>> 
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