I've been trying to install BioPerl, I tried so using ppm and ppm gui for my Windoze XP and Active Perl 5.10, I have been failing terribly even though I am following the directions from BioPerl official site and having read the instructions carefully, I don't know where I am falling behind. When I type, 
ppm>search BioPerl

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I get only one search result, which is 
Bundle-BioPerl
A bundle to install external CPAN modules used by BioPerl 1.5.2
Version 2.1.8
Provide: Bundle::BioPerl ...etc

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which I understood as: BioPerl is not available on the ppm cpan this way. That made me go and download the zip file BioPerl-1.6.0.zip from http://bioperl.org/DIST/ and extract it to a directory location , now trying to 
> ppm install path-to-BioPerl-1.6.0           #from the DOS prompt
#or
> ppm install path-to-BioPerl-1.6.0.ppd

#I get the following errors, respectively: 
ppm install failed: Can't find any package that provides BioPerl-1.6.0
ppm install failed: 404 file does not exist

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I also tried to look for the nmake.exe utility in case I downloaded the gz version of BioPerl but I am finding it too difficult for me to follow (confusing and don't seem to address the issues from the beginning).

Is there a known compatibility hitches between BioPerl and the version of Perl I am using?, can anyone graciously provide guidance on how to effectively download this module?


Thanking you all

Significant update: I got successful finally and installed it, in my search around there were reported incompatibility but this seems to have been resolved and I got bioperl downloaded with 90 modules, yet to check and test however. Here is the link to the website I got the tips from http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Installing_Bioperl_on_Windows, in figuring out the repository all you have to do is just copy paste the name and location from the table of repositories to the respective place in the PPM gui widget, then after that proceed with the installation.

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In reply to Failing to install BioPerl on Windows by biohisham

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