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-LON-CAPA Upgrade
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-LON-CAPA Upgrade
-Current Upgrade Procedure (Almost)
-
-LON-CAPA system releases currently are not released under version
-numbers given the fast pace of system development. To upgrade your
-system, you need to
-
-- Make sure your software packages are up-to-date (based on www.lon-capa.org).
-
-- As root, run the script
-loncapaverifypackages. This script should be present on your system in the file
-/usr/sbin/loncapaverifypackages. If packages are out-of-date, this script will output
-the out-of-date packages. Packages that this script identifies as "should not be here",
-are packages that you may wish to remove to improve system security. (These packages
-may represent important modifications of your institution, so do with care. Removing
-packages is done with the command: rpm -e --nodeps PACKAGE_NAME.
-
- - Upgrade old software packages.
-
-- Upgrade software packages by either
-
-
- - Restore configuration files.
-
-- As you run /usr/sbin/loncapaupgradepackages or enter in rpm -Uvh --force commands, you may
-see messages appear on your screen such as:
-
warning: /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf saved as /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf.rpmsave
-
You can probably just type in commands like:
-
cp /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf.rpmsave /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf
-
to restore your configurations. However, it is worthwhile to use the 'diff' command
-to make sure that you are not accidentally losing important updates to the configuration
-files.
- - Alternatively, you can run /usr/sbin/loncaparestoreconfigurations to "smartly" run through the system and restore LON-CAPA configuration values.
-
- - Should you wish to automate all of this, you can (at your own risk) enable a script which will
-do all of this automatically. This definitely should NOT be implemented on a system that students
-are using). You can enable this script by entering the command:
-cp /usr/sbin/loncapaautoupgrade /etc/cron.daily/loncapaautoupgrade
-
-
-Future Upgrade Procedure (not yet implemented)
-
-In the future, LON-CAPA will be a versioned system that is released via CD.
-The upgrade procedure will be to insert the CD and follow instructions. The CD
-upgrade procedure is already defined and somewhat implemented, but awaits
-completion.
-
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+LON-CAPA Upgrade
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+There are three steps for upgrading the software on your LON-CAPA server.
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+Upgrading LON-CAPA files
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+Download the most current
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+loncapa.tar.gz.
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+
+The UPDATE command will refresh your filesystem with all
+the latest LON-CAPA software.
+
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+
+Checking your Linux RPMs
+
+The CHECKRPMS command will check the RPMs on your machine
+against an FTP repository.
+
+
+
+Testing to see if the LON-CAPA server is operational
+
+The TEST command will check the installation software,
+the perl libraries on your system, the MySQL database, and
+will also automatically test the real-time operation of the
+LON-CAPA Apache web server.
+
+
+
+Using the TEST command will likely
+be an iterative process.
+It is normal to expect that the TEST command
+will recommend you perform various steps to ensure optimal
+performance of your LON-CAPA server.
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