How to Download

The LON-CAPA files are released in a single *.tar.gz file.

Source code of LON-CAPA, it provides you with

network connectivity with other LON-CAPA computers around the world
processing and delivery of course material and problem sets to your students
classroom and course management
extensive new functionality for your web server
tools for monitoring the state of your system

After the download, please read the pages describing the configuration, installation, and upgrading of LON-CAPA.

You can download the most current version of LON-CAPA at http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/current/loncapa.tar.gz.

To view past releases, please visit http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/.

To view the code development history of LON-CAPA, you will need to use the CVS tool, the open standard for version control. Please contact Helen ( helen@lon-capa.org) to request a CVS USERNAME.

The initial CVS commands would be:

export CVSROOT=:pserver:USERNAME@zaphod.lite.msu.edu:/home/cvs 
cvs login 
cvs co loncapa

For more information on using CVS, please visit http://www.cvshome.org.