This is a set of client classes that perform PhyloTastic services. The classes are designed such that they can both be used inside scripts and invoked from the command line. This software is pre-alpha, it's just proof of concept. If you're brave, you can try running: $ perl Makefile.PL This should give you an overview of any prerequisites you're missing. If everything looks OK you might add the lib folder to your $PERL5LIB environment variable. Subsequently, you can run: $ make This will create the phylotastic command line utility, which is in the script folder. You might want to consider adding the script folder to your $PATH environment variable. Of course, you can also do: $ sudo make install In which case you don't have to modify either environment variable (but then this alpha code is installed system-wide).