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1: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 2: "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 3:  4: <html> 5: <head> 6: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></meta> 7: <title>How to Download</title> 8:  9:  10: </head> 11: <body bgcolor='#ffffff'> 12:  13:   14: 15: The LON-CAPA files are released in a single <tt>*.tar.gz</tt> file. 16: 17: <ul> 18: <li><a href="#download">Source code of LON-CAPA</a>, it 19: provides you with 20: + network connectivity with other LON-CAPA computers around the world 21: + processing and delivery of course material and problem sets to your 22: students 23: + classroom and course management 24: + extensive new functionality for your web server 25: + tools for monitoring the state of your system 26: </li> 27: </ul> 28: 29: After the download, please read the pages describing the 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. 34: 35: NOTE: Additional downloads are also available. 36: <ul> 37: <li><a href="#resources">Helpful resources for LON-CAPA</a>, 38: + an integrated approach for quickly installing both RedHat 7.3 39: and LON-CAPA (to ensure 100% reliability) 40: + software packages for the quick installation of CPAN perl modules 41: </li> 42: </ul> 43:   44:  45:  46: 47: <a name="download" /> 48: Source code of LON-CAPA 49: 50: 51: Current Release is version LATESTVERSION, Released on LATESTDATE 52: 53: 54: You can download the most current version of LON-CAPA at 55: <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-current.tar.gz"> 56: http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-current.tar.gz</a>(version LATESTVERSION). 57: 58: 59: The development release of LON-CAPA is at: 60: <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-unstable.tar.gz"> 61: http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-unstable.tar.gz</a>. 62: 63: 64: To view the code development history of LON-CAPA, you will need to use the 65: <a href="http://www.cvshome.org/">CVS</a> tool, the open standard for 66: version control. Please contact Helen (<a href="mailto:helen@lon-capa.org"> 67: helen@lon-capa.org</a>) to request a CVS USERNAME. 68: 69: 70: The initial CVS commands would be: 71: 72: <blockquote> 73: <table bgcolor="#aaaaaa" border="1"> 74: <tr><td> 75: <pre> 76: export CVSROOT=:pserver:USERNAME@zaphod.lite.msu.edu:/home/cvs 77: cvs login 78: cvs co loncapa 79: </pre> 80: </td></tr></table> 81: </blockquote> 82: 83: For more information on using CVS, please visit 84: <a href="http://www.cvshome.org/">http://www.cvshome.org/</a> 85: or read <tt>loncom/build/readme.html</tt> after downloading 86: the current version of LON-CAPA as described above. 87: 88: 89: <a name="resources" /> 90: Helpful resources for LON-CAPA 91: 92: 93: The entire collection of helpful resources is located 94: at <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/resources/"> 95: http://install.lon-capa.org/resources/</a>. 96: 97: 98: Most users of LON-CAPA should install LON-CAPA by 99: simultaneously installing both RedHat 7.3 and LON-CAPA. 100: Step-by-step directions are available 101: <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/resources/stepbystep_rh73.html">here</a>. 102: 103: 104: The "LON-CAPA and RedHat 7.3" tarball is located 105: <a 106: href="http://install.loncapa.org/resources/loncapa-rh73install.tar">here</a>. 107: 108: 109: LON-CAPA makes extensive use of perl modules from 110: <a href="http://www.cpan.org/">CPAN</a>. To help you install all 111: the necessary perl modules, there is a custom-compiled RPM for 112: RedHat 7.* systems: 113: <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/resources/LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.5-rh7.i386.rpm"> 114: LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.5-rh7.i386.rpm</a>. 115: 116: 117: For RedHat 6.2 systems, you should instead use 118: <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/resources/LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.5-1.i386.rpm"> 119: LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.5-1.i386.rpm</a>. 120: 121: 122: To install the systemperl RPM, you should enter the following command: 123: 124: <blockquote> 125: <table bgcolor="#aaaaaa" border="1"> 126: <tr><td> 127: <pre> 128: rpm -Uvh --force LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.5-rh7.i386.rpm 129: </pre> 130: </td></tr></table> 131: </blockquote> 132: 133: The systemperl RPM will overwrite some of 134: the files present in the regular RedHat perl RPM. 135: This is okay; this will not likely cause problems. 136: 137:  138:  139: </body> 140: </html>