Hi Pete, I read the Install for Perl and it had so many "options" that it left me totally overwhelmed. That is why I thought it was not trivial at least compared to installing an OS. These days installing Linux (at least Caldera) is a piece of cake. I just re-read the Perl Install file and I guess I did not understand the instructions correctly and as in many other occasions you are right. I'll give it a try otherwise I'll get a copy of Debian He He!
Thanks a lot Pete! Alfredo BTW #1 The 7.2 is for another machine that eventually will run the Database. Right now I am just running tests on a discarded PC before I am allowed to touch the "real" one. BTW #2 my boss got a kick out of you answer ;-) -----Original Message----- From: Peter Jay Salzman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 12:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Need help with bad Perl begin ALLO (Alfredo Lopez) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I found out that according to one of the Bioinformatics wizards at > Cold Spring Harbor the problem is Perl: > > "This problem has been reported under some versions of SuSE and RedHat > Linux (it appears to be related to a particular RPM distribution of > Perl). Perl was built incorrectly, causing some but not all loadable > modules to fail. The only solution I know of is to rebuild Perl > correctly from scratch and reinstall all previously-installed > modules." their explanation doesn't say much, but it DOES say that the problem ain't perl. the problem is with suse and redhat's package of perl. > Has anybody experienced this? Is there a way to get around this other > than building Perl. I don't know but for an inexperienced user like > me, rebuilding Perl is not a trivial exercise. and how do you know this...experience? how do you know that building perl isn't as easy as: tar jxvf perl.tar.bz2 cd perl ./configure make make install > BTY I am using the latest > version of Caldera (Workstation 3.1) and I am getting next Friday a > copy of RedHat 7.2. But I am almost sure 7.2 will have the same > problem. something is terribly wrong here. you're not willing to install perl from source code, but you ARE willing to install a new operating system. do you see the irony here? :-) pete ps- if you still think installing an operating system is easier than installing perl from source, i think your best recourse is to install debian. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
