[LON-CAPA-admin] LON-CAPA version 2.5.99.1
Lars Jensen
ljensen at tmcc.edu
Wed Dec 26 16:55:23 EST 2007
Hi Stuart,
When I try to upgrade my SUSE 10.2 system (with zypper) , it reports
"Nothing to do." Nevertheless,
rpm -q LONCAPA-prequisites
returns
LONCAPA-prerequisites-1-9.suse10.2.lc
and
rpm -aq |grep gnuplot
returns
gnuplot_loncapa-4.0.0-4.0.suse10.2.lc
Updating through yast doesn't install the new packages either.
Lars.
Stuart Peter Raeburn wrote:
> New Testing Version 2.5.99.1 Released
> This version will be installed on production servers at MSU later today
> (December 26, 2007). I expect to release this as a 2.6.0 within a few days.
> Notable Changes from 2.5.3
> - institutional ID and usernames rules can be enforced during user
> creation/change
> - timezone can be a course-wide specification
> - updated mimeTeX, jsMath, jMol
> - support for problems in exam mode that need multiple bubble lines
> for bubbled response
> - improved layout of grading screens
> - click on image supported in .page and in multiresponse parts
> (user clicks on image and then clicks submit to submit click answer)
> - click on image supports multiple <foils> in one response
> - support resource-specific and course-wide time-limits
> (in addition to the folder-wide time-limits that already existed)
> - problem status can be set to change display of status to show:
> - malformed answer status (incorrect sigfigs etc.) while still
> hiding correctness
> - correct answer when max tries exceeded
> - EditXML and HTML editing now automatically size the textarea to fit
> the browser window (no dual scrollbars in these screens)
> - <languageblock> is deprecated in favor of new
> <translated>/<lang> mechanism
> - New WYSIWYG editor should work in more browsers
> - Domain Coordinators can configure
> - allowed authentication types
> - email addresses to receive email generated by package update alerts,
> and by user submission of "Ask Helpdesk", and "Error report" forms.
> - when user accounts can be created
> - types of user information (name, e-mail, institutional ID)
> which may be changed and by whom
> - DCs, Authors and CCs can generate filtered and sorted listings of
> applicable existing users in HTML/CSV/Excel
> - Where viewer has appropriate privileges, bulk changes to access
> dates or section roles can be performed on users selected from list
> - DCs, Authors and CCs can add user roles via file upload (no longer
> restricted to enrolling students), and DCs can also change passwords
> for internally authenticated users via file upload.
> - Single button/icon for User Management replaces separate ENRL and CUSR
> buttons/icons
> - DCs can update student names/IDs in all courses
> - resources in a folder can be set to be shown in random order for
> students
> - improved German translation
> - <gnuplot> labels supports
> - <sup> and <sub>
> - font size and family
> - Greek symbols (upper case and lower case)
> - <window> supports controlling the mime-type
> - better validation of a course and its use of conditions. Error
> messages are shown if multiple resources have the same mapalias.
>
> To install this update:
> 1) You will need to be running Fedora Core 6, 7, or 8, RHEL (AS|ES) 4 or 5,
> SUSE 9.3 10.1 10.2 or 10.3, SLES 9 or 10, CentOS 5, Scientific Linux 5
> (Fedora Core 5 should continue to work but is deprecated.)
> 2) Update to the latest LONCAPA-prerequisites (1-10), and replace the
> old gnuplot_loncapa with gnuplot 4.2
> (a) Fedora
> For Fedora 5 and 6 you will need to import the LON-CAPA public key. For
> Fedora 7 and 8, it is assumed this occurred previously during the
> original installation.
> rpm --import http://install.loncapa.org/versions/fedora/RPM-GPG-KEY-loncapa
> yum update --obsoletes
>
> (b) RedHat Enterprise 4
> up2date -u LONCAPA-prerequisites
> up2date -i gnuplot
>
> (c) Red Hat 5/Centos 5/Scientific Linux 5
> yum update --obsoletes
>
> (d) SuSE/SLES
> Use yast-> Installation Source to refresh the LON-CAPA repository
> Use yast->Software Management->Search to update LONCAPA-prerequisites
> (to version 1-10), install gnuplot and delete gnuplot_loncapa.
> On all distributions, it is recommended that you check that you have the
> correct versions of LONCAPA-prequisites and gnuplot installed before
> proceeding.
> rpm -q LONCAPA-prequisites
> rpm -q gnuplot
> should report:
> LONCAPA-prerequisites-1-10.X
> gnuplot-4.2.0.X
> (where X is a distro identifier e.g., fc7.lc)
> 3) Download the new LON-CAPA tarball using
> wget http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-2.5.99.1.tar.gz
> and untar it
> tar xzvf loncapa-2.5.99.1.tar.gz
> 4) stop the LON-CAPA system services
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol stop
> 5) stop the webserver:
> Fedora/RHEL/Centos/Scientific Linux
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop
> SUSE 9.X/SLES 9:
> /etc/init.d/apache stop
> SUSE 10.X/SLES 10:
> /etc/init.d/apache2 stop
>
> 6) Run the UPDATE script as root
> cd loncapa-2.5.99.1
> su
> ./UPDATE
>
> 7) restart the LON-CAPA system services
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol start
>
> 8) restart the webserver:
> Fedora/RHEL/Centos/Scientific Linux
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start
> SUSE 9.X/SLES 9:
> /etc/init.d/apache start
> SUSE 10.X/SLES 10:
> /etc/init.d/apache2 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
>
> Stuart Raeburn
> MSU LON-CAPA group
>
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