[LON-CAPA-admin] LON-CAPA version 2.5.99.1

[Lars Jensen]

Hi Stuart,

Thanks! Steps 1-4 worked great.

Lars.

Stuart Peter Raeburn wrote:
> Lars,
> If you are using zypper to update LONCAPA-prerequisites on SuSE 10.2, 
> you'll need to take the following steps:
> 1. Ensure that the installation sources have been refreshed.
> zypper refresh
> 2. Remove the old LONCAPA-prerequisites:
> zypper remove LONCAPA-prerequisites
> 3. Remove the old gnuplot_loncapa
> zypper remove gnuplot_loncapa
> 4. Install the latest LONCAPA-prerequisites (1-10).
> zypper install LONCAPA-prerequisites
> This should also install gnuplot (version 4.2) as a dependency.
> (Note: if despite refreshing the installation source you are unable to 
> install LON-CAPA prerequisites 1-10 in step 4, it may necessary to 
> delete the LON-CAPA installation source: e.g., for SuSE 10.2: LON-CAPA 
> (SUSE LINUX 10.2) and then re-add it using:
> zypper service-list (to get the number)
> zypper service-delete <URI|alias|number>
> zypper service-add  <URI> [alias]
> (see http://install.loncapa.org/suse10.2_install.html for the URI of the 
> LON-CAPA installation source for SuSE 10.2)
> As described in the release notes for loncapa-2.5.99.1, it also possible 
> to use yast interactively to complete steps 1 - 4:
> A. Start yast
> yast
> B. Then using the various screens for
> Software -> Installation Source
> and
> Software-> Software Management
> to complete the tasks descibed in steps 1 - 4.
> Stuart Raeburn
> MSU LON-CAPA group
> 
> Lars Jensen writes:
>> 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.
> 
> 
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