[LON-CAPA-admin] New major release 2.0.0

[Stuart Peter Raeburn]

Hi Martin, 

RPMS required by LON-CAPA but absent from the standard distribution for SuSE 
9.2 can be found at 

http://install.loncapa.org/suse/9.2/RPMS/ 

A number of these (including the apache package) were built starting from 
the srpms you helpfully provide on your site at SFU. 

Instructions for installing LON-CAPA on SuSE (applicable to a fresh install) 
are available at: 

http://install.loncapa.org/suse9.2_install.html 

In the past the suggested upgrade path for users upgrading LON-CAPA servers 
from a version of Fedora to a later version has been to make back-ups of 
/home and /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group and 
/etc/httpd/conf/loncapa.conf before doing a fresh install, but without 
reformatting the partition containing /home. 

Restoration of the backed-up files from /etc after installing the OS, but 
before installing the latest version of LON-CAPA has been the next step. 

Something similar might be appropriate for a SuSE upgrade, although I 
haven't explored it myself yet, but will be doing so soon, prior to building 
RPMS for SuSE 9.3. 

Stuart Raeburn
MSU LON-CAPA development/support 

 

> We are currently running SuSE-9.1.
> In oder to get loncapa working under SuSE 9.1 I compiled about 30 packages
> (e.g., apache-1.3.28) that loncapa requires but are not included with
> SuSE-9.1.
> Since loncapa-2.0.0 is will work with SuSE-9.2 the plan is to upgrade
> to SuSE-9.2 first and then upgrade to loncapa-2.0.0. However, upgrading
> to SuSE-9.2 creates a problem: the perl versions conflict, thus I have
> to uninstall all those 30 packages that I compiled for SuSE-9.1. 
> 
> The question is: has somebody compiled all those extra packages that
> loncapa-2.0.0 requires already for SuSE-9.2? If yes, where can I get
> them? It would be much, much easier to install these together with
> the upgrade to SuSE-9.2 installing all of them first only to reinstall
> them later. 
> 
> Cheers,
> Martin
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