Installing BioPerl

From BioPerl

To install BioPerl you first need a working Perl installed on your computer. Bioperl currently requires at least Perl 5.6.1 but at least 5.8.0 is recommended.

To obtain BioPerl, see the download instructions under Getting BioPerl.

First read the installation instructions for all Unix systems in the INSTALL file or for Windows in the INSTALL.WIN file. Both can also be found on the wiki:

• Installing Bioperl for Unix (includes Mac OS X)
• Installing Bioperl on Windows
• Installing BioPerl on Ubuntu Server
• BioPerl Dependencies

You may or may not have to download any files from this site, depending on how you choose to install Bioperl. The PPM (*ppm.tar.gz) files for Windows installation can be found at bioperl.org/DIST if you elect to install manually on Windows.

There are also official RPM packages from the Fedora Project's repository, details available in Bioperl on Fedora. Alternatively, one could install a RPM package from Biopackages, Allen Day's RPM repository of bioinformatics packages.

We are interested in hearing about how the installation process works on different platforms and operating systems. General comments, suggestions and installation war stories should be sent to the project mail-list bioperl-l. Installation bug reports should be submitted via our web-based reporting system at http://bugzilla.bioperl.org/. There is also a specific PLATFORMS file describing specific issues or workarounds for different platforms.

More a war story than a howto, but I hope it will get there Installing_Bioperl_on_SuSE

Mandriva users will need to add the contrib sources to their repository and install it via rpmdrake (select perl-bioperl) or by typing urpmi perl-bioperl. If you encounter troubles in using the provided package, please use Mandriva's bugzilla and select the perl-bioperl product to report them.