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Fri May 30 17:18:45 2003 UTC (21 years, 1 month ago) by albertel
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CVS tags: version_1_0_3, version_1_0_2, version_1_0_1, version_1_0_0, version_0_99_5, version_0_99_4, version_0_99_3, version_0_99_2, conference_2003, HEAD

- this is going to get old real fast

1: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 2: "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 3:  4: <html> 5: <head> 6: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></meta> 7: <title>How to Download</title> 8:  9:  10: </head> 11: <body bgcolor='#ffffff'> 12:  13:   14: 15: The LON-CAPA files are released in a single <tt>*.tar.gz</tt> file. 16: 17: <ul> 18: <li><a href="#download">Source code of LON-CAPA</a>, it 19: provides you with 20: + network connectivity with other LON-CAPA computers around the world 21: + processing and delivery of course material and problem sets to your 22: students 23: + classroom and course management 24: + extensive new functionality for your web server 25: + tools for monitoring the state of your system 26: </li> 27: </ul> 28: 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: 35: NOTE: Additional downloads are also available. 36: <ul> 37: <li><a href="#resources">Helpful resources for LON-CAPA</a>, 38: + an integrated approach for quickly installing both RedHat 7.3 39: and LON-CAPA (to ensure 100% reliability) 40: + software packages for the quick installation of CPAN perl modules 41: </li> 42: </ul> 43:   44:  45:  46: 47: <a name="download" /> 48: Source code of LON-CAPA 49: 50: 51: Current Release is Version LATESTVERSION. 52: This version was released on LATESTDATE. 53: 54: 55: Current Beta is Version 0.99.1. 56: This version was released on May 30, 2003. 57: 58: 59: You can download the most current version of LON-CAPA at 60: <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-current.tar.gz"> 61: http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-current.tar.gz</a> 62: (version LATESTVERSION). 63: 64: 65: You can download the current beta version of LON-CAPA at 66: <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-0.99.1.tar.gz"> 67: http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-0.99.1.tar.gz</a> 68: (version 0.99.1). 69: 70: 71: The development release of LON-CAPA is at: 72: <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-unstable.tar.gz"> 73: http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-unstable.tar.gz</a>. 74: 75: 76: To view the code development history of LON-CAPA, you will need to use the 77: <a href="http://www.cvshome.org/">CVS</a> tool, the open standard for 78: version control. Please contact Helen (<a href="mailto:helen@lon-capa.org"> 79: helen@lon-capa.org</a>) to request a CVS USERNAME. 80: 81: 82: The initial CVS commands would be: 83: 84: <blockquote> 85: <table bgcolor="#aaaaaa" border="1"> 86: <tr><td> 87: <pre> 88: export CVSROOT=:pserver:USERNAME@zaphod.lite.msu.edu:/home/cvs 89: cvs login 90: cvs co loncapa 91: </pre> 92: </td></tr></table> 93: </blockquote> 94: 95: For more information on using CVS, please visit 96: <a href="http://www.cvshome.org/">http://www.cvshome.org/</a> 97: or read <tt>loncom/build/readme.html</tt> after downloading 98: the current version of LON-CAPA as described above. 99: 100: 101: <a name="resources" /> 102: Helpful resources for LON-CAPA 103: 104: 105: The entire collection of helpful resources is located 106: at <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/resources/"> 107: http://install.lon-capa.org/resources/</a>. 108: 109: 110: Most users of LON-CAPA should install LON-CAPA by 111: simultaneously installing both RedHat 7.3 and LON-CAPA. 112: Step-by-step directions are available 113: <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/docs/install/rh73.html">here</a>. 114: 115: 116: The "LON-CAPA and RedHat 7.3" tarball is located 117: <a 118: href="http://install.loncapa.org/resources/loncapa-rh73install.tar">here</a>. 119: 120: 121: LON-CAPA makes extensive use of perl modules from 122: <a href="http://www.cpan.org/">CPAN</a>. To help you install all 123: the necessary perl modules, there is a custom-compiled RPM for 124: RedHat 7.* systems: 125: <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/resources/LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.5-rh7.i386.rpm"> 126: LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.5-rh7.i386.rpm</a>. 127: 128: 129: For RedHat 6.2 systems, you should instead use 130: <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/resources/LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.5-1.i386.rpm"> 131: LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.5-1.i386.rpm</a>. 132: 133: 134: To install the systemperl RPM, you should enter the following command: 135: 136: <blockquote> 137: <table bgcolor="#aaaaaa" border="1"> 138: <tr><td> 139: <pre> 140: rpm -Uvh --force LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.5-rh7.i386.rpm 141: </pre> 142: </td></tr></table> 143: </blockquote> 144: 145: The systemperl RPM will overwrite some of 146: the files present in the regular RedHat perl RPM. 147: This is okay; this will not likely cause problems. 148: 149:  150:  151: </body> 152: </html>