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Wed Aug 7 20:47:27 2002 UTC (21 years, 9 months ago) by harris41
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CVS tags: version_0_5_1, version_0_5, HEAD
Implementing strategy to have a separate "Helpful Resources" download
repository on the install.lon-capa.org server.

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<p>
The LON-CAPA files are released in a single <tt>*.tar.gz</tt> file.
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<ul>
<li><strong><a href="#download">Source code of LON-CAPA</a></strong>, it
provides you with
<br />+ network connectivity with other LON-CAPA computers around the world
<br />+ processing and delivery of course material and problem sets to your
students
<br />+ classroom and course management
<br />+ extensive new functionality for your web server
<br />+ tools for monitoring the state of your system
</li>
</ul>
<p>
After the download, please read the pages describing the
<a href="/docs/reconfig/index.html">configuration</a>,
<a href="/docs/install/index.html">installation</a>,
and
<a href="/docs/upgrade/index.html">upgrading</a> of LON-CAPA.
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<p><strong>NOTE:</strong> Additional downloads are also available.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong><a href="#resources">Helpful resources for LON-CAPA</a></strong>,
<br />+ an integrated approach for quickly installing both RedHat 7.3
and LON-CAPA (to ensure 100% reliability)
<br />+ software packages for the quick installation of CPAN perl modules
</li>
</ul>
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<font size='+2'>Source code of LON-CAPA</font>
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<p>
You can download the most current version of LON-CAPA at
<a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-current.tar.gz">
http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-current.tar.gz</a>.
</p>
<p>
The development release of LON-CAPA is at:
<a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-unstable.tar.gz">
http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-unstable.tar.gz</a>.
</p>
<p>
To view the code development history of LON-CAPA, you will need to use the
<a href="http://www.cvshome.org/">CVS</a> tool, the open standard for
version control.  Please contact Helen (<a href="mailto:helen@lon-capa.org">
helen@lon-capa.org</a>) to request a CVS USERNAME.
</p>
<p>
The initial CVS commands would be:
</p>
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export CVSROOT=:pserver:USERNAME@zaphod.lite.msu.edu:/home/cvs 
cvs login 
cvs co loncapa
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</blockquote>
<p>
For more information on using CVS, please visit
<a href="http://www.cvshome.org/">http://www.cvshome.org/</a>
or read <tt>loncom/build/readme.html</tt> after downloading
the current version of LON-CAPA as described above.
</p>
<p>
<a name="resources" />
<font size='+2'>Helpful resources for LON-CAPA</font>
</p>
<p>
The entire collection of helpful resources is located
at <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/resources/">
http://install.lon-capa.org/resources/</a>.
</p>
<p>
Most users of LON-CAPA should install LON-CAPA by
<strong>simultaneously installing both RedHat 7.3 and LON-CAPA</strong>.
Step-by-step directions are available
<a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/resources/stepbystep_rh73.html">here</a>.
</p>
<p>
The "LON-CAPA and RedHat 7.3" tarball is located 
<a
href="http://install.loncapa.org/resources/loncapa-rh73install.tar">here</a>.
</p>
<p>
<strong>LON-CAPA makes extensive use of perl modules</strong> from
<a href="http://www.cpan.org/">CPAN</a>.  To help you install all
the necessary perl modules, there is a custom-compiled RPM for
RedHat 7.* systems:
<a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/resources/LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.4-rh7.i386.rpm">
LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.4-rh7.i386.rpm</a>.
</p>
<p>
To install the systemperl RPM, you should enter the following command:
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rpm -Uvh --force LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.4-rh7.i386.rpm
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<p>
The systemperl RPM will overwrite some of
the files present in the regular RedHat perl RPM.
This is okay; this will not likely cause problems.
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