[LON-CAPA-admin] New major release 2.0.0

[Jim Maxka]

Hi Stuart -- Is it possible that loncapa 2.0.0 is not compiled for 
x86_64?  It won't install for me???? .....
Stuart Peter Raeburn wrote:

> 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
>
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>> 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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