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titleInstall Perl modules required for SVDetect. (I do not know why the words do and for are appearing in bold, they are not meant as some kind of hint).
# choose 'yes' to do as much automatically as possible 
# choose 'local::lib' for the approach you want (as you don't have admin rights on TACC)
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cpan[1]> install Config::General
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cpan[2]> install Tie::IxHash
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cpan[3]> install Parallel::ForkManager
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cpan[4]> quit
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titleHow to fix cpan if downloads give errors

Several students were having trouble with the cpan downloads that seem to be related to some kind of interruption in the initial download process. The following commands have solved the issue for at least 1 student. Please try the following if you were unable to get the above cpan downloads to work, and let me know if you continue to experience difficulties.

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titlerelaunch cpan
/bin/cpan
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titleOn the cpan prompt
o conf init

This should then get you back to the point where you can:

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titleInstall Perl modules required for SVDetect. (I do not know why the words do and for are appearing in bold, they are not meant as some kind of hint).
# choose 'yes' to do as much automatically as possible 
# choose 'local::lib' for the approach you want (as you don't have admin rights on TACC)
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cpan[1]> install Config::General
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cpan[2]> install Tie::IxHash
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cpan[3]> install Parallel::ForkManager
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cpan[4]> quit

The above solution is based on steps 4-7 of this page. Again, if this does not fix the problem you were having, please let me know.


Once you quit cpan, you will get a message to restart your shell. Since you are on a remote computer, you can accomplish the same thing by logging out of TACC and sshing back in.

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