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Tue Apr 23 13:04:54 2002 UTC (22 years, 2 months ago) by harris41
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improving TEST description

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    3: <head>
    4: <title>LON-CAPA Upgrade</title>
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    8: <body>
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   10: <p>
   11: There are three steps for upgrading the software on your LON-CAPA server.
   12: </p>
   13: <ul>
   14: <li><a href="#upgrade">
   15: Upgrading LON-CAPA files</a></li>
   16: <li><a href="#checkrpms">
   17: Checking your Linux RPMs</a></li>
   18: <li><a href="#testing">
   19: Testing to see if the LON-CAPA server is operational</a></li>
   20: </ul>
   21: <br />&nbsp;<br />
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   24: <a name="upgrade" />
   25: <h3>Upgrading LON-CAPA files</h3>
   26: <p>
   27: Download the most current
   28: <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/current/loncapa.tar.gz">
   29: loncapa.tar.gz</a>.
   30: </p>
   31: <p>
   32: The <strong>UPDATE</strong> command will refresh your filesystem with all
   33: the latest LON-CAPA software.
   34: </p>
   35: <table bgcolor="#aaaaaa" border="1">
   36: <tr><td><tt>./UPDATE</tt></td></tr>
   37: </table>
   38: <a name="checkrpms" />
   39: <h3>Checking your Linux RPMs</h3>
   40: <p>
   41: The <strong>CHECKRPMS</strong> command will check the RPMs on your machine
   42: against an FTP repository.
   43: </p>
   44: <table bgcolor="#aaaaaa" border="1">
   45: <tr><td><tt>./CHECKRPMS</tt></td></tr>
   46: </table>
   47: <a name="testing" />
   48: <h3>Testing to see if the LON-CAPA server is operational</h3>
   49: <p>
   50: The <strong>TEST</strong> command will check the installation software,
   51: the perl libraries on your system, the MySQL database, and
   52: will also automatically test the real-time operation of the 
   53: LON-CAPA Apache web server.
   54: </p>
   55: <table bgcolor="#aaaaaa" border="1">
   56: <tr><td><tt>./TEST</tt></td></tr>
   57: </table>
   58: <p>
   59: Using the <strong>TEST</strong> command will likely
   60: be an iterative process.
   61: It is normal to expect that the <strong>TEST</strong> command
   62: will recommend you perform various steps to ensure optimal
   63: performance of your LON-CAPA server.
   64: </p>
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   67: </html>
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