You will need to check all the following things to ensure proper -installation of your LON-CAPA system. +installation of your LON-CAPA system. Be sure to use the RedHat 7.3 or Fedora specific instructions if they apply, +as that will be much easier for you.
+Current Release is Version LATESTVERSION. +This version was released on LATESTDATE. +
++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: + +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 the MSU LON-CAPA group +(helpdesk@lon-capa.org) to request a +CVS USERNAME. +
++The initial CVS commands would be: +
++++
++ +export CVSROOT=:ext:USERNAME@source.lon-capa.org:/home/cvs +cvs login +cvs co loncapa ++
+For more information on using CVS, please visit +http://www.cvshome.org/ +or read loncom/build/readme.html after downloading +the current version of LON-CAPA as described above. +
+@@ -151,6 +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 +
+@@ -165,7 +234,15 @@ against an FTP repository, if you're usi
If you are not installing on RedHat, you may need to manually install some software. The following pointers may be useful:
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