[Bioperl-l] Problem to install bioperl-1.6.1

[Fields, Christopher J]

On Mar 13, 2014, at 5:58 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

You really want the latest, v1.6.923.  Saying that, the ‘1.006001' is a perl versioning conversion used for dealing with three-point versions.  It’s even used for the perl binary; if you use perl 5.18.1 the official 2-point version is 5.018001 (if you want to specify the minimal perl version in a script, ‘use 5.018001’)

chris