in reply to Bioperl 1.6.1

With BioPerl, there are these repositories that you connect to, so you figure them out before you start installing BioPerl, and there are external modules too: are the major repositories out there. It seems that there are a lot of dependencies involved and there are like 4 different ways to install BioPerl hence confusion erupts. Anyways, this link provides very nice instructions on how to connect these repositories via PPM GUI and PPM-Shell...

After having installed BioPerl successfully, you might need to manage the PPM and enable/disable some of these repositories so as to maintain your ppm interface responsiveness, check PPM performs uneeded checks for a related discussion.

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Re^2: Bioperl 1.6.1
by bilogical (Novice) on Jan 18, 2010 at 02:39 UTC

    Thanks for the reply.

    I followed up the instruction in the link you mentioned, and set up the repositories before installation. It is the BioPerl 1.6 version in the BioPerl Regular Releases depository that I was trying to install and found out the problem in the first post. I tried other ways to install as well, but various problems occurred.

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      Having configured these repositories the same way mentioned in these links through PPM works reliably for me, then after that, running 
      >ppm search BioPerl

      [download]
      give me the following results "
      Read more... Link Title Here (47 kB)
      " corresponds to the BioPerl version you seek...Try starting a fresh iteration through these steps, delete the repositories and start afresh, then explain/mention the errors that you are getting...
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