[Gmod-ajax] JBrowse not installing: perl prerequisites issue

[Vaneet L. <van...@uc...>]

Hello,



I’m installing JBrowse on a new Ubuntu VM.  I already heeded the previous advice to use Node.js v14 as later versions were in fact causing the usual ‘node-sass’ issue.  Even though I have python3 installed, I had to install python2 since the setup script was looking for it and would fail without it.  Anyways now when I run the setup script, my Perl prerequisites fail to install:



Installing Perl prerequisites ... failed.  See setup.log file for error messages. As a first troubleshooting step, make sure development libraries and header files for GD, Zlib, and libpng are installed and try again.



Formatting Volvox example data ... failed.  See setup.log file for error messages.



I did in fact install the system prerequisites using this command:



apt install build-essential zlib1g-dev



Not sure if that’s what it’s looking for but nevertheless when executing that command now it indicates I have the latest version for all these packages.  I'd be happy to attach my setup.log file too directly, I just can't post it to the mailing list as it seems too big for the limit.



Thanks for any help you can provide!



Vaneet