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.

NOTE: Additional downloads are also available.

Helpful resources for LON-CAPA,
+ an integrated approach for quickly installing both RedHat 7.3 and LON-CAPA (to ensure 100% reliability)
+ software packages for the quick installation of CPAN perl modules

Current Release is version LATESTVERSION, Released on LATESTDATE

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

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.

Helpful resources for LON-CAPA

The entire collection of helpful resources is located at http://install.lon-capa.org/resources/.

Most users of LON-CAPA should install LON-CAPA by simultaneously installing both RedHat 7.3 and LON-CAPA. Step-by-step directions are available here.

The "LON-CAPA and RedHat 7.3" tarball is located here.

LON-CAPA makes extensive use of perl modules from CPAN. To help you install all the necessary perl modules, there is a custom-compiled RPM for RedHat 7.* systems: LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.4-rh7.i386.rpm.

To install the systemperl RPM, you should enter the following command:

rpm -Uvh --force LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.4-rh7.i386.rpm

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.