[Biopython] gff installation failed with easy_install

Mic mictadlo at gmail.com
Tue Apr 30 03:13:19 UTC 2013


Thank you it is working.


On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Brad Chapman <chapmanb at 50mail.com> wrote:

>
> Mic;
>
> > I have tried to install gff with easy_install, but I got the following
> > error:
> > $ easy_install --prefix=/home/mic/apps/pymodules -UZ
> > https://github.com/chapmanb/bcbb/tree/master/gff
> > Downloading https://github.com/chapmanb/bcbb/tree/master/gff
> > error: Unexpected HTML page found at
> > https://github.com/chapmanb/bcbb/tree/master/gff
> >
> > How is it possible to install gff?
>
> I don't know of a way to install directly from git with subdirectories
> like that. You'd need to clone, then install with easy_install or pip:
>
> $ git clone git://github.com/chapmanb/bcbb.git
> $ easy_install bcbb/gff
> $ pip install bcbb/gff
>
> Apologies about the convoluted setup. Depending on what you're doing,
> you might want to have a look at gffutils:
>
> https://github.com/daler/gffutils
>
> We're working on rolling the functionality from the gff library into
> this so there'll be one place to work from for GFF in python.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Brad
>



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