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Wed Aug 7 20:47:27 2002 UTC (21 years, 11 months ago) by harris41
Branches: MAIN
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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   13: <br />&nbsp;
   14: <p>
   15: The LON-CAPA files are released in a single <tt>*.tar.gz</tt> file.
   16: </p>
   17: <ul>
   18: <li><strong><a href="#download">Source code of LON-CAPA</a></strong>, it
   19: provides you with
   20: <br />+ network connectivity with other LON-CAPA computers around the world
   21: <br />+ processing and delivery of course material and problem sets to your
   22: students
   23: <br />+ classroom and course management
   24: <br />+ extensive new functionality for your web server
   25: <br />+ tools for monitoring the state of your system
   26: </li>
   27: </ul>
   28: <p>
   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: </p>
   35: <p><strong>NOTE:</strong> Additional downloads are also available.</p>
   36: <ul>
   37: <li><strong><a href="#resources">Helpful resources for LON-CAPA</a></strong>,
   38: <br />+ an integrated approach for quickly installing both RedHat 7.3
   39: and LON-CAPA (to ensure 100% reliability)
   40: <br />+ software packages for the quick installation of CPAN perl modules
   41: </li>
   42: </ul>
   43: <br />&nbsp;
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   46: <p>
   47: <a name="download" />
   48: <font size='+2'>Source code of LON-CAPA</font>
   49: </p>
   50: <p>
   51: You can download the most current version of LON-CAPA at
   52: <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-current.tar.gz">
   53: http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-current.tar.gz</a>.
   54: </p>
   55: <p>
   56: The development release of LON-CAPA is at:
   57: <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-unstable.tar.gz">
   58: http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-unstable.tar.gz</a>.
   59: </p>
   60: <p>
   61: To view the code development history of LON-CAPA, you will need to use the
   62: <a href="http://www.cvshome.org/">CVS</a> tool, the open standard for
   63: version control.  Please contact Helen (<a href="mailto:helen@lon-capa.org">
   64: helen@lon-capa.org</a>) to request a CVS USERNAME.
   65: </p>
   66: <p>
   67: The initial CVS commands would be:
   68: </p>
   69: <blockquote>
   70: <table bgcolor="#aaaaaa" border="1">
   71: <tr><td>
   72: <pre>
   73: export CVSROOT=:pserver:USERNAME@zaphod.lite.msu.edu:/home/cvs 
   74: cvs login 
   75: cvs co loncapa
   76: </pre>
   77: </td></tr></table>
   78: </blockquote>
   79: <p>
   80: For more information on using CVS, please visit
   81: <a href="http://www.cvshome.org/">http://www.cvshome.org/</a>
   82: or read <tt>loncom/build/readme.html</tt> after downloading
   83: the current version of LON-CAPA as described above.
   84: </p>
   85: <p>
   86: <a name="resources" />
   87: <font size='+2'>Helpful resources for LON-CAPA</font>
   88: </p>
   89: <p>
   90: The entire collection of helpful resources is located
   91: at <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/resources/">
   92: http://install.lon-capa.org/resources/</a>.
   93: </p>
   94: <p>
   95: Most users of LON-CAPA should install LON-CAPA by
   96: <strong>simultaneously installing both RedHat 7.3 and LON-CAPA</strong>.
   97: Step-by-step directions are available
   98: <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/resources/stepbystep_rh73.html">here</a>.
   99: </p>
  100: <p>
  101: The "LON-CAPA and RedHat 7.3" tarball is located 
  102: <a
  103: href="http://install.loncapa.org/resources/loncapa-rh73install.tar">here</a>.
  104: </p>
  105: <p>
  106: <strong>LON-CAPA makes extensive use of perl modules</strong> from
  107: <a href="http://www.cpan.org/">CPAN</a>.  To help you install all
  108: the necessary perl modules, there is a custom-compiled RPM for
  109: RedHat 7.* systems:
  110: <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/resources/LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.4-rh7.i386.rpm">
  111: LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.4-rh7.i386.rpm</a>.
  112: </p>
  113: <p>
  114: To install the systemperl RPM, you should enter the following command:
  115: </p>
  116: <blockquote>
  117: <table bgcolor="#aaaaaa" border="1">
  118: <tr><td>
  119: <pre>
  120: rpm -Uvh --force LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.4-rh7.i386.rpm
  121: </pre>
  122: </td></tr></table>
  123: </blockquote>
  124: <p>
  125: The systemperl RPM will overwrite some of
  126: the files present in the regular RedHat perl RPM.
  127: This is okay; this will not likely cause problems.
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