Installing SuSE 11.2 is quite easy if you've installed Linux products
-before. Some documentation is available from
-
-http://en.opensuse.org/INSTALL_Local for installations from DVD and
-http://en.opensuse.org/INSTALL_Internet for installations via the network, booting from the mini.iso CD.
-Most of the subsequent installation screens are self explanatory.
+before. Some documentation is available from the
+
+Installation Quick Start guide.
+Most of the installation screens are self explanatory.
There are a few steps that require comment and are dealt with below.
After finishing the online update, the system should reboot, and @@ -114,26 +110,14 @@ yast Select "Installation Source" and change to point at OSS and non-OSS repositories: (http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss and http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/non-oss) or alternatively at iternet installation repositories close to your location (see http://en.opensuse.org/Mirrors_Released_Version), or a local institutional source you have built from the SuSE 11.2 DVD, or you may prefer to continue to point at the installation DVD.
Add the LON-CAPA SuSE 11.2 repository as an additional installation source. Once this is done, software installation in yast should then have access to a minimum of three repositories - a YUM source for SuSE updates (established when you run online update from yast), an installation source (for OSS packages included in the standard distribution) and the LON-CAPA repository (for extra packages needed to run LON-CAPA). For the LON-CAPA source you will use: -
Use zypper to add two additional repositiories provide by openSuSE - one for the R statistics package (the R-patched repo), and one for the Maxima computer algebra system (the science repo). Use the following commands to add them. +
Add the LON-CAPA SuSE 11.2 repository as an additional installation source.
+Use zypper to add the LON-CAPA SuSE 11.2 repository and two additional repositiories provide by openSuSE - one for the R statistics package (the R-patched repo), and one for the Maxima computer algebra system (the science repo). Use the following commands to add them.
+zypper ar -f 'http://install.loncapa.org/suse/11.2' LON-CAPA zypper ar -f 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:languages:R:patched/openSUSE_11.2' R-patched zypper ar -f 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/openSUSE_11.2' science+You will need to confirm that you wish to trust the key used to sign the packages in the LON-CAPA SuSE 11.2 repository.
yast -i LONCAPA-prerequisites
-This may take a moment due to LON-CAPA's large number of dependencies. +This may take some minutes due to LON-CAPA's large number of dependencies. +
+After Apache has been installed use yast to configure the Firewall to open port 80 for http (and port 443 for https, if you plan to use Apache with SSL). +
Retrieve the LON-CAPA setup with the following command:
-wget http://install.loncapa.org/versions/suse/11.2/suse11.2_install.tar +wget http://install.loncapa.org/linux/install.tar
Extract the archive with the following command:
-tar xf suse11.2_install.tar +tar xf install.tar
This creates a directory named installation. Change to it and @@ -165,7 +156,26 @@ cd installation ./install.pl
-This script will prompt you for the MySQL root password and will download the latest LON-CAPA release. +The script is used to prepare a Linux system to run LON-CAPA, and can also be +used to check the configuration of a system on which LON-CAPA has already been installed. Typically, though, you will run this script only once, when you first install LON-CAPA. +
++The script will analyze your system to determine which actions are recommended. The script will then prompt you to choose the actions you would like taken. +Once a choice has been entered for all nine possible actions, required changes will be made. +
+The possible actions are: +
@@ -203,7 +213,7 @@ for it to function at all. Below is a l To configure and install LON-CAPA, execute the following commands:
-cd /root/loncapa-N.N (N.N should correspond to a version number like '2.9.0') +cd /root/loncapa-X.Y.Z (X.Y.Z should correspond to a version number like '2.10.0') ./UPDATE
@@ -216,15 +226,13 @@ in the previous section. You will need at least one user at your site who has the role of 'domain coordinator'. This user creates accounts for other users and grants them additional privileges. The make_domain_coordinator.pl script -invoked below requires that you enter the users password. The password will -show in plaintext as you type it. Feel free to use the "passwd username" -command to change it later. Replace USERNAME and DOMAIN with an -appropriate user name and your domain. +invoked below requires that you enter the user's password. +Feel free to use the "passwd username" command to change it later. +Replace USERNAME and DOMAIN with an appropriate user name and your domain.
-cd /root/loncapa-N.N/loncom/build +cd /root/loncapa-X.Y.Z/loncom/build perl make_domain_coordinator.pl USERNAME DOMAIN -(WILL PROMPT FOR PASSWORD HERE)