[LON-CAPA-admin] LON-CAPA version 2.6.99.1

[Stuart Raeburn]

Todd,

Starting with LON-CAPA 2.7, updates to the LONCAPA-prerequisites rpm  
(and any associated new dependencies unavailable from standard  
opensuse repositories) will no longer be provided by the MSU LON-CAPA  
group for SuSE 9.3.

Security updates for SuSE 9.3 itself, from opensuse.org, were  
discontinued in June 2007. (See  
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-06/msg00005.html).

The link to the LON-CAPA installation instructions for SuSE 9.3 has  
now been removed from the install page - http://install.loncapa.org/

LON-CAPA support for SuSE 11.0 is planned, but not currently available.

Stuart Raeburn
MSU LON-CAPA group

Quoting Todd Ruskell <truskell at mines.edu>:

> Stuart and others,
>
> I noticed that SUSE 9.3 is no longer listed as supported.  Has support
> for it also been deprecated, or was it simply missed from the list?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Todd
>
> Stuart Raeburn wrote:
>  > To install this update:
>>
>> 1) You will need to be running Fedora Core 6, 7, or 8, RHEL (AS|ES) 4 or 5,
>>     SUSE 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.)
>>     Support for Fedora 9 is expected to be available soon.
>>
>> 2) Update to the latest LONCAPA-prerequisites (1-12).
>>
>> (a) Fedora
>> yum update
>>
>> (b) RedHat Enterprise 4
>>
>> up2date -u LONCAPA-prerequisites
>>
>> Note: LONCAPA-prerequisites for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 includes
>> a dependency on perl-libxml-enno-1.03.  If you already have
>> perl-libxml-enno
>> iinstalled on your system it will be version 1.02.  If the update to
>> LONCAPA-prerequsites 1-12 fails to update perl-libxml-enno to 1.03,
>> you should update that package directly:
>>
>> up2date -u perl-libxml-enno
>>
>> (c) Red Hat 5/Centos 5/Scientific Linux 5
>>
>> yum update
>>
>> (d) SuSE/SLES
>>
>> Use yast-> Installation Source to refresh the LON-CAPA repository
>> Use yast->Software Management->Search to update LONCAPA-prerequisites (to
>> version  1-12).
>>
>> On all distributions, it is recommended that you check that you have the
>> correct versions of LONCAPA-prequisites installed before proceeding.
>>
>> rpm -q LONCAPA-prequisites
>>
>> should report:perl-libxml-enno
>> LONCAPA-prerequisites-1-12.X
>>
>> (where X is a distro identifier e.g., fc7.lc)
>>
>> If you are using Red Hat 4, also check that you have
>> perl-libxml-enno version 1.03
>>
>> rpm -q perl-libxml-enno
>>
>> 3) Download the new LON-CAPA tarball from
>> wget http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-2.6.99.1.tar.gz
>>
>> and untar it
>>
>> tar xzvf loncapa-2.6.99.1.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
>>
>> SLES 9:
>> /etc/init.d/apache stop
>>
>> SUSE 10.1/SLES 10:
>> /etc/init.d/apache2 stop
>>
>>
>> 6) Run the UPDATE script as root
>> cd loncapa-2.6.99.1
>> 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
>>
>> SLES 9:
>> /etc/init.d/apache start
>>
>> SUSE 10.1,2/SLES 10:
>> /etc/init.d/apache2 start
>
>
> --
> Dr. Todd Ruskell
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