[ensembl-dev] Problem attempting to install VEP 77

[Nicolas Thierry-Mieg]

Hi,

works here on centos 6, but I avoid CPAN as much as possible and use the 
distro-provided perl-Archive-Extract-0.38-141.el6.x86_64 .

HTH


On 09/29/2015 05:23 PM, Murphy, David wrote:
> Hi All
>
> We’ve been trying to install VEP 77
> (https://github.com/Ensembl/ensembl-tools/archive/release/77.zip) in
> order to replicate results from a previous analysis.
>
>
> We’re running perl v5.10.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release
> 6.6 (Santiago)
>
> sh-4.1# perl -version
>
> This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi
>
>
> When we run Install.pl we get the error
>
>
> sh-4.1# perl INSTALL.pl
>
<snip>
> - unpacking ./Bio/tmp/ensembl.zip
>
> Key 'archive' is of invalid type for Archive::Extract::new provided by
> main::unpack_arch at /usr/share/perl5/Archive/Extract.pm line 270.
>
> Can't call method "extract" on an undefined value at INSTALL.pl line 905.
>
>
> The file ensembl.zip  is downloaded and appears to be a valid zip
> archive and can be extracted manually.
>
> The perl core module Archive::Extract appears to be there.
>
> Package namespace         installed    latest  in CPAN file
>
> Algorithm::Diff              1.1903    1.1903
> TYEMQ/Algorithm-Diff-1.1903.tar.gz
>
> App::cpanminus               1.7039    1.7039
> MIYAGAWA/App-cpanminus-1.7039.tar.gz
>
> Archive::Extract               0.74      0.76
> BINGOS/Archive-Extract-0.76.tar.gz
>
> Archive::Zip                   1.51      1.53  PHRED/Archive-Zip-1.53.tar.gz
>
> Attribute::Handlers            0.85      0.99
> RJBS/Attribute-Handlers-0.99.tar.gz
>
>
> We also tried with the latest version of the installer to try to
> diagnose the problem but we got the same error.
>
> Any ideas for what might be wrong?
>
> Regards
> David