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

[Todd Ruskell]

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


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Dr. Todd Ruskell
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