# Running hl.vep gives no autodie::Utils in @INC
**URL:** https://discuss.hail.is/t/running-hl-vep-gives-no-autodie-utils-in-inc/2109
**Category:** Hail Query & hailctl
**Created:** [June 28, 2021, 4:01pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/running-hl-vep-gives-no-autodie-utils-in-inc/2109 "2021-06-28T16:01:54Z")
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### Author:  [@NLSVTN](https://discuss.hail.is/u/NLSVTN)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2021, 4:01pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/running-hl-vep-gives-no-autodie-utils-in-inc/2109/1 "2021-06-28T16:01:54Z")
I verified that VEP can be run in the terminal successfully. autodie and autodie::Utils are installed in the dir: _/local/perl5/lib/perl5/_ which is in _PERL5LIB_. When I try to run hl.vep from python script though its giving an error that Can’t locate _autodie/Util.pm_ in _@INC_, but the path is there, _/local/perl5/lib/perl5/_. So, I am not sure whats going wrong here. hail version is 0.2.57.
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### Author:  [@tpoterba](https://discuss.hail.is/u/tpoterba)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2021, 4:04pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/running-hl-vep-gives-no-autodie-utils-in-inc/2109/2 "2021-06-28T16:04:02Z")
Are you running on a cluster, or a single node? Is VEP installed on a network-visible file system?
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### Author:  [@NLSVTN](https://discuss.hail.is/u/NLSVTN)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2021, 4:04pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/running-hl-vep-gives-no-autodie-utils-in-inc/2109/3 "2021-06-28T16:04:24Z")
Just in ipython or also with python test\_vep.py. Second question - that I am not sure what it means. It can run in terminal, so I should be able to run it from python, I suppose.
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### Author:  [@tpoterba](https://discuss.hail.is/u/tpoterba)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2021, 4:09pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/running-hl-vep-gives-no-autodie-utils-in-inc/2109/4 "2021-06-28T16:09:46Z")
Hail uses Apache Spark to orchestrate distributed computing. How is Spark being run? Using default installation on a single computer/server (local mode) or on a cluster (cluster mode)?
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### Author:  [@tpoterba](https://discuss.hail.is/u/tpoterba)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2021, 4:09pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/running-hl-vep-gives-no-autodie-utils-in-inc/2109/5 "2021-06-28T16:09:57Z")
also, can you post all the stack traces here?
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### Author:  [@NLSVTN](https://discuss.hail.is/u/NLSVTN)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2021, 4:30pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/running-hl-vep-gives-no-autodie-utils-in-inc/2109/6 "2021-06-28T16:30:06Z")
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I guess local mode. We have a folder with installed spark, so I set SPARK\_HOME to point to it and add it also to the PATH. I am a bit confused regarding the question since we are not running spark. There is nothing written about spark installation being a prerequisite for hail run:
[https://hail.is/docs/0.2/install/linux.html](https://hail.is/docs/0.2/install/linux.html)
We just launch ipython, and run several lines of code, thats it. No spark server is running anywhere else.
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### Author:  [@NLSVTN](https://discuss.hail.is/u/NLSVTN)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2021, 8:29pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/running-hl-vep-gives-no-autodie-utils-in-inc/2109/7 "2021-06-28T20:29:40Z")
It was a permissions issue. The @INC path - _/local/perl5/lib/perl5/_ - needed different folder permissions set up.