[Bioperl-l] bioperl on CentOS 6.4

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Fields, Christopher J wrote:
> On Nov 19, 2013, at 3:07 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>
>> If there is such info, I'd very much appreciate a link to how to
install BioPerl on CentOS 6.4 (which is the same as RHEL 6.4, or, I
think, Scientific Linux 6.4....)
>>
>> Currently, a) cpan fails to install; b) the "current" version won't
build due to dependencies on some newer libraries, and c) 9.0.1 is a
nightmare
>> of dependencies, which I had to patch to change all references to
/usr/bin/perl from /bin/ perl and /usr/bin/perl, and, among many other
requirements to install, though not to build, is Ace, which I see
deprecated in the Build.PL, but used in several modules.
>
> We need a bit more information, in particular how you are trying to
install the software, what is actually failing test-wise, etc.  The
latest version on CPAN is v1.6.922, so I’m not sure what version 9.0.1
refers to.
>  You do not need Ace; it is a ‘recommended’ module but is not required; we
> will likely deprecate or remove the Ace-related modules at some point.
>
> The latest CPAN Testers output indicates that most failing tests are on
Windows systems (no real surprise there).  A few Linux installs seems to
have failures as well, so if this leads to better tests or having things
pass on more OS’s, all the better.
>
Sorry, I have 1.6.901. When I tried to build the current, it failed, as I
said, because it wanted newer libraries (it's been a few weeks since I
tried to build that, gave up, and went to what I found as the "previous"
released version).

I understand Ace is deprecated, but I have files that were in the .tgz
that say "use Ace;". And after I build it, and use rpmerizor (we figure if
we get it working, they'll want it on other servers), and try to install,
it fails to install with the following requirements:
           Requires: perl(Bio::Tools::Run::Samtools)
           Requires: perl(Bio::Phylo::Matrices::Matrix)
           Requires: perl(Bio::Tools::Run::Phylo::Phylip::ProtPars)
Requires: perl(Bio::Tools::Run::Primer3)
           Requires: perl(Bio::Expression::Sample)
           Requires: perl(Bio::Phylo::Forest::Tree)
           Requires: perl(enum)
           Requires: perl(Bio::Phylo::Matrices::Datum)
           Requires: perl(Ace)
           Requires: perl(Bio::Expression::Platform)
           Requires: perl(Bio::Factory::EMBOSS)
           Requires: perl(Bio::Expression::Contact)
           Requires: perl(Bio::Graphics::Panel)
           Requires: perl(Bio::Tools::Run::Alignment::Clustalw)
           Requires: perl(Bio::Tools::BPlite)
           Requires: perl(Bio::Expression::DataSet)
           Requires: perl(Bio::Phylo::IO)
           Requires: perl(Bio::ASN1::EntrezGene)
           Requires: perl(Bio::Tools::Run::Phylo::Phylip::Neighbor)
Requires: perl(Bio::Phylo::Factory)
           Requires: perl(Bio::Tools::Run::Phylo::Phylip::ProtDist)
Requires: perl(Bio::Tools::Run::Alignment::TCoffee)
           Requires: perl(Bio::Tools::Run::Phylo::Molphy::ProtML)
           Requires: perl(Bio::Phylo::Matrices)
           Requires: perl(Gtk)

My manager, while discussing it, noted that we only have a package for
Gtk2, not Gtk.

Are there some options when I run perl Build.PL to tell it that the Ace is
optional, and any of the rest is? And neither of us is sure what
perl(enum) is... though searching cpan, I see there is such a module, but
no package from our standard repositories.

May I ask just what the "standard cpan testors" are running on? As I said,
when I tried, again, weeks ago, it failed to build.

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