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.

NOTE: If you want to quickly install both RedHat 7.3 and LON-CAPA (to ensure 100% reliability), download these instructions.

Source code of LON-CAPA

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

The development release of LON-CAPA is at: http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-unstable.tar.gz.

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/ or read loncom/build/readme.html after downloading the current version of LON-CAPA as described above.