[LON-CAPA-admin] 1.2.99.0

[Guy Albertelli II]

Hi All,

New Version 1.2.99.0 Released

Codename "Yum"


WARNING: YOU WILL NEED TO UPGRADE TO FEDORA (or a linux distribution
with Perl 5.8 at least)


Known Issues:
- probably lots of little things, probably not wise to install this i
   on a machine you care about

Notable Changes:
- map conditions should work
- encrypturl works
- lots of discussion enhancements
- survey mode works with all problem types
- student tracking
- plenty of things that I am forgetting
- support for 64bit machines

To install this update:

1) You will need to be running Fedora Core 2 or 3 to work



2) Use yum to update your machine and then install the
      LONCAPA-prerequisites

yum update
yum install LONCAPA-prerequisites



3) Download the new LON-CAPA tarball from
wget http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-1.2.99.0.tar.gz

and untar it

tar xzvf loncapa-1.2.99.0.tar.gz
or
tar xzvf loncapa-fedora-1.2.99.0.tar.gz




4) Run the UPDATE script as root
cd loncapa-1.2.99.0
su
./UPDATE



5) restart the system services
/etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start




----NOTES
1) Many questions are answered at http://help.lon-capa.org
2) Defects reports, and enhancements requests can be entered at
   http://bugs.lon-capa.org
3) Mailing lists can be joined and left at http://mail.lon-capa.org

-- 
guy at albertelli.com  LON-CAPA Developer  0-7-3-2-