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Old 09-25-2014, 11:06 PM   #1
marktv88
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Perl4 Core Libs Install Help


Hi all. I'm pretty new to linux but I'm using at uni to sequence genomes now and I've come across an issue I can't seem to solve. When I run an assembly pipeline that we use (the A5 assembly pipeline) I get an error message telling me that 'getopts.pl' can't be found in @INC. Now as I understand it that is because that's part of a set of libraries that Perl no longer uses but they can be force installed using CPAN in order to help older scripts work. The only problem is I can't seem to work out how to use CPAN to do this. I've installed CPAN and downloaded the libraries (Perl4-CoreLibs) for CPAN but I need someone to point me in the direction of a guide or similar to help me finally sort this out.

Thanks in advance!

Further details: currently running the latest version of Ubuntu through VirtualBox on a 64 bit system. 3GB RAM assigned to it while it runs but have a total of 8GB RAM if more is needed.
 
Old 09-26-2014, 02:39 AM   #2
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May be /usr/share/perl5/ or /usr/share/perl/5.18.2/ aren't in @INC ?
Please try : $ locate getopts.pl

"getopts.pl" is provided by 'perl-modules' and 'libperl4-corelibs-perl' :
$ sudo apt-get install perl-modules libperl4-corelibs-perl

'perl-modules' provides /usr/share/perl/5.14.2/getopts.pl
and 'libperl4-corelibs-perl' provides /usr/share/perl5/getopts.pl

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Old 09-26-2014, 08:22 AM   #3
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That worked a treat! Thank you so much!
 
  


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