--- doc/build/manual_install.frag 2003/08/19 14:07:00 1.2 +++ doc/build/manual_install.frag 2005/08/17 17:23:52 1.7 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
You will need to check all the following things to ensure proper installation of your LON-CAPA system. Be sure to use the RedHat 7.3 specific instructions if they apply, +href="rh73.html">RedHat 7.3 or Fedora specific instructions if they apply, as that will be much easier for you.
-You can download the most current version of LON-CAPA at +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: +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. +version control. Please contact Guy Albertelli +(albertel@msu.edu) to request a +CVS USERNAME.
The initial CVS commands would be: @@ -198,6 +201,25 @@ the latest LON-CAPA software.
./UPDATE |
Lon-CAPA uses a large numbe of perl modules that need to be +installed. Some of these may be available on your machine already, +some can be gotten from packages in your Linux Distribution. Some will probably need to come from CPAN
+ +You can check which modules you have and which ones you need by +running the TEST script. It will generate a CPAN_STATUS_REPORT. +You can install an missing perl modules by doing: +
perl -MCPAN -e 'install MODULENAME' |
+More documentation on how CPAN works is available here +
+