install ensembl-vep

yueli711 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello, I tried to install ensembl-vep in my Ubuntu 18.04.5. What can I do in this point? Thanks in advance for any help! Best Regards, Yue


Inspiron-3670:~/ensembl-vep$ perl INSTALL.pl 
curl failed (000), trying to fetch using LWP::Simple
LWP::Simple failed (500), trying to fetch using HTTP::Tiny
ERROR: Failed last resort of using HTTP::Tiny to download https://raw.
+githubusercontent.com/Ensembl/ensembl-vep/release/104/modules/Bio/Ens
+EMBL/VEP/Constants.pm
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Re: install ensembl-vep by marto (Cardinal) on Aug 15, 2021 at 10:54 UTC
You don't link to ensembl-vep, it isn't on cpan. Help others to help you. How do I post a question effectively?.	[reply]
Re: install ensembl-vep by hippo (Archbishop) on Aug 16, 2021 at 08:28 UTC
From the error messages presented to you it seems obvious that either curl or LWP::Simple or HTTP::Tiny need to be installed first. Did you do that? 🦛	[reply]