[Bioperl-l] Problem to install bioperl-1.6.1

[Scott Cain]

Hi Michael,

A rather odd convention in the Perl community (perhaps elsewhere? I don't
know) is that a version number of 1.006001 is the same as 1.6.1.  I imagine
the advantage of the first way of expressing it is that it is a real
number, so you can use math functions (like < and >) when comparing version
numbers.

Also, I should point out that 1.6.1 is pretty old.  The current version is
1.6.923.

Scott



On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Michael Angel Perez Cabarcas <
mperez at uniandes.edu.co> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to install bioperl-1.6.1  according the steps described in
> http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Installing_BioPerl_on_Unix section
>  (Installing using CPAN).    At the end I got the this output:
>
> Writing /usr/local/lib64/perl5/auto/Bio/.packlist
> Will try to install symlinks to /usr/local/bin
>   CJFIELDS/BioPerl-1.6.1.tar.gz
>   ./Build install  -- OK
>
> In order  to verify  what version is installed, I  executed this command:
>
> perl -MBio::Root::Version -e 'print $Bio::Root::Version::VERSION,"\n"'
>
> The output is: 1.006001
>
> I do not understand why the version is 1.006001 even if the installed
> version  is 1.6.1.
>
> I am working on  CentOS 6,  64bits
>
> Could you please help  me to solve this issue?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Michael Pérez
>
>
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