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* 8 WHERE ARE THE MAN PAGES?
* 9 EXTERNAL PROGRAMS
* 9.1 Environment Variables
* 10 THE BIOPERL BUNDLE
* 11 INSTALLING BIOPERL SCRIPTS
* 12 INSTALLING BIOPERL IN A PERSONAL MODULE AREA
* 13 INSTALLING BIOPERL MODULES THE HARD WAY
* 14 USING MODULES NOT INSTALLED IN THE STANDARD LOCATION
* 15 THE TEST SYSTEM
* 16 BUILDING THE OPTIONAL bioperl-ext PACKAGE
* 10 INSTALLING BIOPERL SCRIPTS
* 11 INSTALLING BIOPERL IN A PERSONAL MODULE AREA
* 12 INSTALLING BIOPERL MODULES THE HARD WAY
* 13 USING MODULES NOT INSTALLED IN THE STANDARD LOCATION
* 14 THE TEST SYSTEM
* 15 BUILDING THE OPTIONAL bioperl-ext PACKAGE
* 16.1 CONFIGURING for BSD and Solaris boxes
* 16.2 INSTALLATION

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http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Installing_BioPerl

BioPerl has been installed on many forms of Unix, Win9X/NT/2000/XP,
and on Mac OS X (see the PLATFORMS file for more details). Following
are instructions for installing BioPerl for Unix/Linux/Mac OS X;
Windows installation instructions can be found in INSTALL.WIN. For
installing BioPerl for Mac OS X using Fink, see:
and on Mac OS X. The following are instructions for installing BioPerl
for Unix/Linux/Mac OS X. Windows installation instructions can be found
in INSTALL.WIN. For installing BioPerl for Mac OS X using Fink, see:

http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Getting_BioPerl#Mac_OS_X_using_fink

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cpan>o conf makepl_arg "EXPATLIBPATH=/non-standard/lib EXPATINCPATH=/non-standard/include"
cpan>o conf commit


INSTALLING BIOPERL THE EASY WAY USING Build.PL

The advantage of this approach is it's stepwise, so it's easy to stop
and analyze in case of any problem.

Download, then unpack the tar file. For example:

>tar xvfz BioPerl-1.6.1.tar.gz
>cd BioPerl-1.6.1
>tar xvfz BioPerl-1.6.923.tar.gz
>cd BioPerl-1.6.923

Now issue the build commands:

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>./Build install

This is what most experienced BioPerl users would do. However, if
you're concerned about a failed test and need assistance or advice
If you're concerned about a failed test and need assistance or advice
then contact bioperl-l@bioperl.org. (You could provide us the detailed
results of the failed test(s): see the `THE TEST SYSTEM' below for
information on how to generate such results.)
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standard Perl5 location. See INSTALLING BIOPERL IN A PERSONAL MODULE
AREA, below.


INSTALLING BIOPERL THE EASY WAY USING CPAN

You can use the CPAN shell to install BioPerl. For example:
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Then find the name of the BioPerl version you want:

cpan>d /bioperl/
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /home/bosborne/.cpan/Metadata
Database was generated on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 05:24:36 GMT

....

Distribution B/BI/BIRNEY/bioperl-1.2.tar.gz
Distribution B/BI/BIRNEY/bioperl-1.4.tar.gz
Distribution C/CJ/CJFIELDS/BioPerl-1.6.1.tar.gz
Distribution CJFIELDS/BioPerl-1.6.901.tar.gz
Distribution CJFIELDS/BioPerl-1.6.922.tar.gz
Distribution CJFIELDS/BioPerl-1.6.923.tar.gz

Now install:

cpan>install C/CJ/CJFIELDS/BioPerl-1.6.1.tar.gz
cpan>install CJFIELDS/BioPerl-1.6.923.tar.gz

If you've installed everything perfectly and all the network
connections are working then you may pass all the tests run in the
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If you decide that the failed tests will not affect how you intend to
use BioPerl and you'd like to install anyway do:

cpan>force install C/CJ/CJFIELDS/BioPerl-1.6.1.tar.gz
cpan>force install C/CJ/CJFIELDS/BioPerl-1.6.923.tar.gz

This is what most experienced BioPerl users would do. However, if
you're concerned about a failed test and need assistance or advice
If you're concerned about a failed test and need assistance or advice
then contact bioperl-l@bioperl.org. (You could provide us the detailed
results of the failed test(s): see the `THE TEST SYSTEM' below for
information on how to generate such results.)
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| |(e.g. http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@proxy.example.com:8080). |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+

THE BIOPERL BUNDLE

Users of previous versions of BioPerl may remember Bundle::BioPerl.
You no longer need to install Bundle::BioPerl. Instead, the normal
installation process will ask you if you'd like to install optional
external module dependencies that BioPerl has.

A full list of BioPerl dependencies can be found in the DEPENDENCIES
file included with this distribution.

INSTALLING BIOPERL SCRIPTS

BioPerl comes with a set of production-quality scripts that are
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