Installing Bioperl on SuSE
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Installing BioPerl on SLES9 or SuSE-9.3
First let it be said, Bioperl is bigger than Beh Hur and there's bound to be casualties. CPAN does NOT just slip through reams of sucessfull installs, there's errors and optional prerequisites.
There is evidence of a lot of work going on, but not all the TODOs have been shaken out.
I just wish they listed their pre-requisites more comprehensively and allowed a "follow" CPAN policy to do the work.
My desk is littered with lists of modules that didn't get installed automatically but were needed for full functionality.
Getting there is a tortuous path, let's start:
SLES9 users have a bit of catching up to do first:
SLES9 is based on SuSE9.1 and is pretty outdated these days (2006-05-11)
You'll need better versions of the GD libraries than SLES9 provides.
These RPMs from SuSE 9.3 can be installed,
gd-2.0.32-6.2
gd-devel-2.0.32-6.2
# You may need some of these 9.3 RPMs to get RPM prerequisites satisfied:
gdbm-devel is needed by gd-2.0.32-6.2
ncurses-devel is needed by gd-2.0.32-6.2
syslogd is needed by gd-2.0.32-6.2
texinfo is needed by gd-2.0.32-6.2
zlib-devel is needed by gd-2.0.32-6.2
fontconfig-devel is needed by gd-2.0.32-6.2
freetype2-devel is needed by gd-2.0.32-6.2
libjpeg-devel is needed by gd-2.0.32-6.2
libpng-devel is needed by gd-2.0.32-6.2
xorg-x11-devel is needed by gd-2.0.32-6.2
The better GD libs need a better perl wrapper than the SUSE RPM "perl-GD".
CPAN install using; root> perl -MCPAN -e shell
install GD # Should go on with some warnings
install GD::SVG # It will fail, there are 2 duff tests 17 and 47
Easy fix, use: force install
Otherwise, look GD::SVG
make test # The failed tests relate to unexpected returns from obscure uses of "polygon"
vi t/1.t and disable them (cook it till they succeed)
make install
^D out of "look"
For all platforms, CPAN install using; root> perl -MCPAN -e shell
Ace
Clone
IO::Scalar
Test::Pod
Test::Pod::Coverage
Tie::IxHash
Tree::XPathEngine
Unicide::Map8
Unicode::String
XML::DOM::XPath
XML::Handler::YAWriter
XML::Filter::BufferText
XML::XPath
XML::SAX::Writer # Trouble here
Failed test (t/05basic.t at line 51)
iconv converter for real encoding isn't a 'Text::Iconv' it's a 'Text::IconvPtr'
Well maybe it should be, look and edit or use force.
install Bundle::BioPerl
It happened? Good. You think your done? WRONG!
Bundle::BioPerl isn't BioPerl with all the trimmings, it's the pre-requisites that bioperl (lowercase) should have demanded.
That was the easy part, now for bioperl itself.
Going into CPAN and saying "install B/BI/BIRNEY/bioperl-1.4.tar.gz" would be too easy, well actually it would blow up in your face with more errors than you would want to track down to assure yourself they were harmless.
So we have to choose between the slack way and the hard way.
Slack: CPAN install and damn the torpedoes!
force install B/BI/BIRNEY/bioperl-1.4.tar.gz
I had a boss once who used: root> make install | grep FATAL No output? A perfect compilation/installation! He was very productive, but of what was debated.
Not really that hard:
Abandon bioperl-1.4 like the developers; bioperl-1.5 is the happening place. Get it from: http://bioperl.org/DIST/current_core_unstable.tar.bz2 bzcat current_core_unstable.tar.bz2 | tar xvf - cd bioperl-1.5.1 perl Makefile.PL make make test # Still 1 error # now DB.t test 24 gets 30 results not 28. # It's fixed in the CVS version. make install # I don't mind ignoring errors when I know they are harmless.
Hurrah it's on, peace and happyness? Not completely....
You may have seen whinging about Bio::SeqIO::staden::read.pm not being installed properly, it's part of bioperl-ext and you'll wish you had it but that's another story
