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Thanks for the reply Hauke D.

I have tried a lot of different things, including your suggestions but to no avail. Given that I know I can download an unzippable file from my browser, I am just going to enter the INSTALL.pl file and try to create my own work around. Its not a terribly large file so I dont think it will be to bad.


Thanks again
-cookersjs
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Re^3: Installation error; INSTALL.pl program is unable to unzip downloaded file
by Holly He (Initiate) on Apr 23, 2017 at 04:25 UTC
    Hi cookersjs. I get the same error log with you. But the reason I faild is the server I work on is network-unavailable. So curl can not download the "release-1-6-924.zip" file(the log is : curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'github.com'). Ok! I download the file manually. then run "perl INSTALL.pl", when it goes to : 
    Setting up directories
Destination directory ./Bio already exists.
Do you want to overwrite it (if updating VEP this is probably OK) (y/n
+)?

    [download]
    if I type n, it will exit: 
    Setting up directories
Destination directory ./Bio already exists.
Do you want to overwrite it (if updating VEP this is probably OK) (y/n
+)? n
Exiting

    [download]
    but if I type y, the zip file I download and copy to ./Bio disappear because it will overwrite the ./Bio directory.

    I am crazy by this. Could you tell me how to fix this problem? Thanks in advance!

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      BioPerl has dependencies. If you're working 'off line' use a computer that does have internet access to create a minicpan. Transfer this to your server the configure the cpan tool to use this local mirror. It sounds like a lot of work, but it really isn't and will make your life easier in the long run.

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        Thanks for your reply! But I can not follow you by "Transfer this to your server the configure the cpan tool to use this local mirror", could you give me some details on this? And now I am trying to install all of the dependencies of BioPerl. I wonder whether BioPerl and vep can be installed exactly if the dependencies are all installed... feeling crazy~
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