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                     14: <p>
1.4       harris41   15: The LON-CAPA files are released in a single <tt>*.tar.gz</tt> file.
1.7       harris41   16: </p>
1.1       harris41   17: <ul>
1.2       harris41   18: <li><strong><a href="#download">Source code of LON-CAPA</a></strong>, it
1.7       harris41   19: provides you with
                     20: <br />+ network connectivity with other LON-CAPA computers around the world
                     21: <br />+ processing and delivery of course material and problem sets to your
                     22: students
                     23: <br />+ classroom and course management
                     24: <br />+ extensive new functionality for your web server
                     25: <br />+ tools for monitoring the state of your system
                     26: </li>
1.3       harris41   27: </ul>
1.2       harris41   28: <p>
                     29: After the download, please read the pages describing the
1.12      harris41   30: <a href="/docs/reconfig/index.html">configuration</a>,
                     31: <a href="/docs/install/index.html">installation</a>,
                     32: and
                     33: <a href="/docs/upgrade/index.html">upgrading</a> of LON-CAPA.
1.1       harris41   34: </p>
1.12      harris41   35: <p><strong>NOTE:</strong> Additional downloads are also available.</p>
                     36: <ul>
                     37: <li><strong><a href="#resources">Helpful resources for LON-CAPA</a></strong>,
                     38: <br />+ an integrated approach for quickly installing both RedHat 7.3
                     39: and LON-CAPA (to ensure 100% reliability)
                     40: <br />+ software packages for the quick installation of CPAN perl modules
                     41: </li>
                     42: </ul>
1.1       harris41   43: <br />&nbsp;
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                     46: <p>
1.2       harris41   47: <a name="download" />
1.1       harris41   48: <font size='+2'>Source code of LON-CAPA</font>
1.13      albertel   49: </p>
                     50: <p>
1.17    ! harris41   51: <font size="+1">Current Release is Version LATESTVERSION.
        !            52: This version was released on LATESTDATE.</font>
1.1       harris41   53: </p>
                     54: <p>
1.2       harris41   55: You can download the most current version of LON-CAPA at
1.9       harris41   56: <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-current.tar.gz">
1.17    ! harris41   57: http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-current.tar.gz</a>
        !            58: (version LATESTVERSION).
1.2       harris41   59: </p>
                     60: <p>
1.8       harris41   61: The development release of LON-CAPA is at:
1.9       harris41   62: <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-unstable.tar.gz">
                     63: http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-unstable.tar.gz</a>.
1.2       harris41   64: </p>
1.7       harris41   65: <p>
1.2       harris41   66: To view the code development history of LON-CAPA, you will need to use the
1.10      harris41   67: <a href="http://www.cvshome.org/">CVS</a> tool, the open standard for
1.2       harris41   68: version control.  Please contact Helen (<a href="mailto:helen@lon-capa.org">
                     69: helen@lon-capa.org</a>) to request a CVS USERNAME.
1.1       harris41   70: </p>
1.6       harris41   71: <p>
1.5       harris41   72: The initial CVS commands would be:
1.6       harris41   73: </p>
1.7       harris41   74: <blockquote>
1.6       harris41   75: <table bgcolor="#aaaaaa" border="1">
                     76: <tr><td>
1.5       harris41   77: <pre>
1.1       harris41   78: export CVSROOT=:pserver:USERNAME@zaphod.lite.msu.edu:/home/cvs 
                     79: cvs login 
1.5       harris41   80: cvs co loncapa
                     81: </pre>
1.6       harris41   82: </td></tr></table>
1.7       harris41   83: </blockquote>
1.6       harris41   84: <p>
1.5       harris41   85: For more information on using CVS, please visit
1.10      harris41   86: <a href="http://www.cvshome.org/">http://www.cvshome.org/</a>
1.6       harris41   87: or read <tt>loncom/build/readme.html</tt> after downloading
                     88: the current version of LON-CAPA as described above.
1.12      harris41   89: </p>
                     90: <p>
                     91: <a name="resources" />
                     92: <font size='+2'>Helpful resources for LON-CAPA</font>
                     93: </p>
                     94: <p>
                     95: The entire collection of helpful resources is located
                     96: at <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/resources/">
                     97: http://install.lon-capa.org/resources/</a>.
                     98: </p>
                     99: <p>
                    100: Most users of LON-CAPA should install LON-CAPA by
                    101: <strong>simultaneously installing both RedHat 7.3 and LON-CAPA</strong>.
                    102: Step-by-step directions are available
                    103: <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/resources/stepbystep_rh73.html">here</a>.
                    104: </p>
                    105: <p>
                    106: The "LON-CAPA and RedHat 7.3" tarball is located 
                    107: <a
                    108: href="http://install.loncapa.org/resources/loncapa-rh73install.tar">here</a>.
                    109: </p>
                    110: <p>
                    111: <strong>LON-CAPA makes extensive use of perl modules</strong> from
                    112: <a href="http://www.cpan.org/">CPAN</a>.  To help you install all
                    113: the necessary perl modules, there is a custom-compiled RPM for
                    114: RedHat 7.* systems:
1.15      harris41  115: <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/resources/LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.5-rh7.i386.rpm">
                    116: LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.5-rh7.i386.rpm</a>.
                    117: </p>
                    118: <p>
                    119: <i>For RedHat 6.2 systems, you should instead use
                    120: <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/resources/LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.5-1.i386.rpm">
1.16      harris41  121: LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.5-1.i386.rpm</a></i>.
1.12      harris41  122: </p>
                    123: <p>
                    124: To install the systemperl RPM, you should enter the following command:
                    125: </p>
                    126: <blockquote>
                    127: <table bgcolor="#aaaaaa" border="1">
                    128: <tr><td>
                    129: <pre>
1.15      harris41  130: rpm -Uvh --force LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.5-rh7.i386.rpm
1.12      harris41  131: </pre>
                    132: </td></tr></table>
                    133: </blockquote>
                    134: <p>
                    135: The systemperl RPM will overwrite some of
                    136: the files present in the regular RedHat perl RPM.
                    137: This is okay; this will not likely cause problems.
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