[Bioperl-l] help!

Tue Feb 7 21:38:12 UTC 2012

I will take the opportunity to shamelessly pimp my no-install install
instructions (below and http://seqxml.org/xml/BioPerl.html). IMHO if
Casandra is just looking to get started with BioPerl, messing with external
libs and configs is probably overkill.

Best,
Dave

 There’s a quickie, “zero-install” way to get BioPerl on your system.

    1) Okay, click here to download bioperl as a zip file:

    https://github.com/bioperl/bioperl-live/zipball/master

    when it's done downloading, unzip it if your computer hasn’t done it
automatically. On the
    command line, you would do:

         unzip bioperl-live-bioperl-release-1-5-1-rc4-4318-g342e587.zip

    or whatever the file is called. You should then have a folder with some
ugly name like

    bioperl-bioperl-live-558467a

    3) rename that to

    bioperl-live

    4) move that folder to wherever you want to keep it. I keep mine in a
directory called src in my
        home directory.

    So on my computer if I go to the command line and cd to that folder and
type pwd I get:

    /Users/dave/src/bioperl-live

    5) in the terminal, cd to your home directory.

    6) see if you have a file named .bash_profile by typing

    ls -l ~/.bash_profile

    7) if so, open that file in your favorite editor. if the file doesn't
exist, just create the file.

    8) put this line in your .bash_profile

             export PERL5LIB=/Users/dave/src/bioperl-live

    (obviously replacing my path info with wherever you chose to put
bioperl)

    9) save and close your .bash_profile

  10) open a new terminal window so that the change will take effect.

  11) on the command line of the new terminal, type

               perl -e "use Bio::SeqIO;"

    If that works, then you have "installed" bioperl. Yay!

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 22:12, Scott Cain <scott at scottcain.net> wrote:

> Yes, but those doc don't address exactly the problem Cassandra is
> having, that she wants to use local::lib, but there need to be some
> prereqs installed, but they can't be because she chose to use
> local::lib, and it's not installed.  That's all fine if you're not a
> newbie and know how to properly install the prereqs before using the
> cpan shell, but when following instructions that say "use local::lib",
> I find that the instructions are completely insufficient in actually
> getting the desired software installed.  Thus the need for a good
> tutorial.
>
> Scott
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Chris Fields <cjfields at illinois.edu>
> wrote:
> > I guess one key question is where these CPAN installation instructions
> come
> > from.  They're a bit odd, and if this is from the wiki we need to do some
> > updating.
> >
> > Re: local::lib, the docs on CPAN are pretty nice if one wants to use a
> > single perl version.
> >
> > https://metacpan.org/module/local::lib#The-bootstrapping-technique
> >
> > In my case I use perlbrew (which is all local by default, and allows
> > switching between perl versions).  Highly recommend using either simple
> > local::lib or perlbrew in combination with cpanm.
> >
> > https://metacpan.org/module/perlbrew
> > https://metacpan.org/module/cpanm
> >
> > chris
> >
> >
> >
> > On 02/07/2012 02:55 PM, Scott Cain wrote:
> >>
> >> hi Cassandra,
> >>
> >> I don't have an answer for you at the moment.  It seems to me that
> >> using local::lib is a good idea, but I've never found a good tutorial
> >> for using it, so I haven't.  Perhaps someone else on the list can
> >> suggest one.
> >>
> >> The other thing I just wanted to mention as the admin that approved
> >> your message--I came very close to deleting it from the queue without
> >> looking at it because it is not unusual for spam messages to have
> >> generic subjects like "help!"  (just for future reference :-)
> >>
> >> Scott
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Casandra<kasandrah at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I'm trying to install Bioperl but I'm a bit lost. I know I have perl
> >>> installed becaused I have already write some scripts but I'm biologist
> >>> so...
> >>> not pretty sure about what messages say.
> >>>
> >>> My perl version:
> >>> This is perl, v5.8.8 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level
> >>> My computer:
> >>> Mac OS X Vesion 10.5.8
> >>>
> >>> I was following this preliminary steps:
> >>>
> >>> --------------
> >>>
> >>> PRELIMINARY PREPARATION
> >>>
> >>>    This is optional, but regardless of your subsequent choice of
> >>>    installation method, it will help to carry out the following steps.
> >>>    They will increase the likelyhood of installation success
> >>>    (especially of optional dependencies).
> >>>
> >>>      * Upgrade CPAN:
> >>>
> >>>  >perl -MCPAN -e shell
> >>>  cpan>install Bundle::CPAN
> >>>  cpan>q
> >>>
> >>>      * Install/upgrade Module::Build, and make it your preferred
> >>>        installer:
> >>>
> >>>  >cpan
> >>>  cpan>install Module::Build
> >>>  cpan>o conf prefer_installer MB
> >>>  cpan>o conf commit
> >>>  cpan>q
> >>>
> >>>      * Install the expat library by whatever method is
> >>>        appropriate for your system.
> >>>
> >>>      * If your expat library is installed in a non-standard location,
> >>>        tell CPAN about it:
> >>>
> >>>  >cpan
> >>>  cpan>o conf makepl_arg "EXPATLIBPATH=/non-standard/lib
> >>> EXPATINCPATH=/non-standard/include"
> >>>  cpan>o conf commit
> >>>
> >>> --------------
> >>>
> >>> And I think I did "Upgrade CPAN properly" but when I tried the next one
> >>> it
> >>> started asking too many things to me, and finally it stopped due to
> "some
> >>> problems". In text file you can see the whole process.
> >>> What did I do wrong?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> After solving these preliminary steps, what should I do? What exactly
> >>> .tar
> >>> or .whatever should I download to install?
> >>>
> >>> I don't see the difference between installing it through "built.PL" or
> >>>  CPAN. And I don't know if I should do this or that "Fink*" stuff for
> >>> MAC.
> >>>
> >>> * I went to Fink webpage and what I expected to see was "hello!
> download
> >>> Bioperl simply clicking here!" but far from this, what it seems is that
> >>> first I have to download some kinf of Fink-program before starting with
> >>> Bioperl... is it something close to this?
> >>>
> >>> I'm sorry, too many questions... But I really want to learn to use
> >>> Bioperl
> >>> but I have no people to ask it face to face.
> >>>
> >>> Thank you so much,
> >>>
> >>> Casandra
> >>>
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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