Take a look at the installation notes. Note the first suggestion of using your OS package management. Failing that you'll need to meet the dependencies and build from source. cpan/cpanm are command line tools to automate the installation of modules and their dependencies. cpanm is faster and is recommended by the BioPerl installation procedure documented in the link above. Both of these tools require internet access, unless you have a local mirror. My suggestion was to use minicpan on a system with internet access to create a mirror of the cpan, transfer it (via whatever method you use to get files onto this server), the configure cpanm to look at the local mirror rather than try to connect to the internet. For cpanm there is an example in the documentation, the --mirror option, which would be the path to the transferred cpan mirror.

I use this method at work on a daily basis and have no issues.

You'll need to spend some time reading and understanding these links. Alternatively speak to your system administrator and have them set this up for you.

In reply to Re^6: Installation error; INSTALL.pl program is unable to unzip downloaded file by marto
in thread Installation error; INSTALL.pl program is unable to unzip downloaded file by cookersjs

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