Hi -
Does anyone know of a source for obtaining BioPerl RPM for Scientific/Enterprise Linux 6? Our sysadmin and I have been engaged on a relatively extensive hunt for such a package, to no avail. Any pointers to such a resource or info about if/why it isn't available would be much appreciated.
Many thanks in advance,
Casey
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Casey Bergman
Why do you need an RPM. It's a set of Perl modules so just grab it from CPAN and do:
wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/C/CJ/CJFIELDS/BioPerl-1.6.1.tar.gz
sudo yum install expat-devel
sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell
>>> install Bundle::CPAN
>>> install Module::Build
>>> install BioPerl-1.6.1.tar.gz
Done.
Of course I am aware that BioPerl is available on CPAN, and have wasted many hours of my life with this ritual incantation. There are two good reasons we want to use an RPM: (i) we are trying to deploy across a cluster and (ii) we do not want to contaminate the native Perl installation on the OS by using CPAN.
Then maybe you should make an RPM.
We are in the process of doing this but it is bigger task than we would like for many reasons, and I would assume that this has been done by someone else in the community.
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