For future reference, if you've already asked the question, please update or reply to your previous question. (You might not have seen it because it wasn't approved yet, but visit Sameet and click on your posting history and you can find it.)

About this question, if it passed 99% of the tests, then it failed 1% of the tests. That means that it does not work as the author intended and it will be buggy for you. Therefore you should track down the error (eg run the test suite, figure out what is failing, and contact the author). Hopefully it can get fixed in short order. (You might be able to figure the test out and come up with a fix yourself. Authors really enjoy getting a bug report and patch together in the same email. Been there, done that, and it is a pleasant surprise.)

Should you wish to have a known buggy install of partially working software, you can always force install Foo using CPAN to force it to install despite errors.

Again, I don't recommend doing that though.

In reply to Re: ^3 Problem Installing BioPerl by tilly
in thread Problem Installing BioPerl by Sameet

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