[LON-CAPA-admin] LON-CAPA Version 2.8.0
Stuart Raeburn
raeburn at msu.edu
Fri Jan 16 12:51:59 EST 2009
Lars,
perl-DateTime-0.4304-1.0.<distro><version>.lc.<arch>.rpm rpms have
been built for all distros on which LON-CAPA is supported (and added
to the corresponding LON-CAPA repository on install.loncapa.org), in
cases where the distro's core repository either contains a version
that is too old or, alternatively, does not contain this particular rpm.
This includes SuSE 10.2.
You will need to update the perl-DateTime rpm installed on your
system. How this is done depends on the distro. In the case of SuSE
you should use yast.
1. yast -> Software -> Installation Source
2. Select the listed YAST repository: "http://install.loncapa.org/suse/10.2/"
3. Source Settings -> Refresh Now
4 Finish
5. Software -> Software Management
6. Search perl-DateTime
7. Confirm that the "Avail. Vers." listed is 0.4304.
8. Toggle the -i- > to update, and use Accept.
If you cannot get this to work you could fetch the rpm directly:
wget
http://install.loncapa.org/suse/10.2/RPMS/i586/perl-DateTime-0.4304-1.0.suse10.2.lc.i586.rpm
As perl-DateTime has a dependency on perl-List-MoreUtils you'll also
need that:
wget
http://install.loncapa.org/suse/10.2/RPMS/i386/perl-List-MoreUtils-0.22-1.0.suse10.2.lc.i386.rpm
and then do:
rpm -ivh perl-List-MoreUtils-0.22-1.0.suse10.2.lc.i386.rpm
followed by
rpm -Uvh perl-DateTime-0.4304-1.0.suse10.2.lc.i586.rpm
If you use yast, the perl-List-MoreUtils dependency will be handled
automatically.
Stuart Raeburn
MSU LON-CAPA group
Quoting Lars Jensen <ljensen at tmcc.edu>:
> Hi Stuart,
>
> We're running opensuse 10.2, which is not being updated anymore. The
> version we have installed of perl-Datetime is
> perl-DateTime-0.41-1.0.suse10.2.lc. I assume this won't work with
> loncapa 2.8. Do you know where I can find a perl-Datetime rpm for suse
> 10.2? Or do I have to build the module? If so, are there any
> dependencies that must be satisfied?
>
> Lars.
>
> Stuart Raeburn wrote:
>> New Version 2.8.0 Released
>>
>> Notable Changes from 2.7.1:
>>
>> Authoring Resources
>>
>> - Publication is possible for problems that do not include any
>> response items, but include imported libraries.
>>
>> - When viewed in "Show Answer" status, Organic Material Response
>> items display a "Show Your Last Answer" button if a JME string for
>> display as the computer's answer was omitted. (In 2.7.0, but
>> eliminated in 2.7.1 when the pencil icon replaced the "Draw
>> Molecule" button).
>>
>>
>> Student Interface
>>
>> - Users with a single role/course no longer have this role selected
>> automatically.
>> Instead the courses/roles page will be displayed for all users after log-in.
>>
>> - A "Re-initialize/Re-select" course button is shown on the
>> roles/courses screen for all course users when in course context.
>>
>> - The WYSIWYG editor used for composing HTML in text areas has been updated
>>
>> - The mimeTeX utility used to create bitmap images for display of
>> mathematical typesetting has been updated. Inline images now
>> display in vertical alignment with any surrounding text.
>>
>> - For inline navigation (set to icons or icons/text) the
>> annotations to a resource icon will change if a user has already
>> annotated the resource.
>>
>> - The starting day of the week used in the calendar is determined by Locale.
>>
>> - Files uploaded by students for submission to assignments (e.g.,
>> via a Drop Box) are subject to a size restriction.
>>
>> - The assigned quota and the amount of disk space currently in use
>> for the user's Portfolio are displayed.
>>
>>
>> Communications
>>
>> - System-generated text in a notification e-mail is localized
>> according to the recipient's language preference (or course
>> language preference, if message sent in course context).
>>
>> - Each recipient receives a single notification e-mail if
>> notification e-mail and permanent e-mail addresses are the same,
>> and e-mail should go to both.
>>
>> - The sender's e-mail address is omitted from notification e-mail
>> headers if the original LON-CAPA message did not permit replies.
>> The text of the e-mail also warns that replies will not be received
>> by the sender.
>>
>> - The recipient type - either To: or Cc: - is preserved when
>> displaying a message.
>> Selections from both To: or Cc: recipients can be made when replying.
>>
>> - A pop-up window can be launched to show a list of recipients
>> when displaying a message broadcast to multiple course participants.
>>
>> - Group members sending a broadcast message to active group members
>> can elect to designate recipients as either Cc: or Bcc:.
>>
>> - Ccs set in the "Contact Helpdesk" web form only apply if the form
>> is accessed by a logged-in user.
>>
>>
>> Course Management
>>
>> - The default maximum for the cumulative size of files a user can
>> submit to a particular question is 10 MB. Max. file size is a
>> parameter which can be set at a course, folder or resource level
>> for all users or specific users.
>>
>> - Storage of information about file uploads in a course's activity
>> log has been streamlined.
>>
>> - A file uploaded to a Drop Box is not overwritten by later
>> submission of a similarly named file by the same user to a
>> different assignment.
>>
>> - The naming scheme for page/sequence files which record
>> folder/composite page contents is more succinct where the
>> folder/page is a copy of an existing course item.
>>
>> - If a course timezone has been defined, this will be applied to
>> all dates/times shown when using the "Student Activity" utility to
>> display recent activity in a course.
>>
>>
>> Grading
>>
>> - Formularesponse items will not accept a comma in an individual
>> submission - either as a scalar answer or within a single
>> component in a vector answer (vector answers still use a comma as
>> separator between components).
>>
>> - If timeouts or internal errors prevent grading of a submission, a
>> student will not be charged a try, and will be able to submit the
>> same answer again.
>>
>> - When grading bubble sheet exams, an optional verification can
>> check for inconsistencies between bubbled letters/numbers and
>> stored submissions. A scan line with anomalies receives a second
>> grading pass, and a warning is displayed if they persist.
>>
>> - The zip file which can be generated of all files submitted by
>> selected students to a particular assignment now includes files
>> uploaded directly as well as files selected from students'
>> portfolios.
>>
>>
>> Domain Coordination/Domain Settings
>>
>> - Default Locale can be set for a domain or for a course.
>>
>> - User Tools (Personal Home Page, Blogs and User Portfolio) can be
>> enabled/disabled for users in a domain based on affiliation (e.g.,
>> Faculty, Staff, Student etc.). Any domain-wide access controls can
>> be overridden for individual users by a Domain Coordinator. The
>> default is for all three tools to be enabled for all users.
>>
>> - The lightweight webserver run on port 8080 (lonhttpd) formerly
>> used to serve icons has been eliminated because of issues with
>> institutional firewalls. The standard web server on port 80 (or
>> 443 for SSL) is now used.
>>
>> - Display of a banner and/or main logo on the log-in page (either
>> custom or default) can be disabled.
>>
>> _ A Domain Coordinator's Main Menu includes a "Domain Status" item
>> which links to a number of utilities which provide server status
>> information.
>>
>> _ Access to server status pages can be configured for specific
>> users, or from specific IP addresses. Domain Coordinators
>> automatically have access for servers in their domain. This
>> replaces the previously used Apache Basic Auth access control.
>>
>>
>> Printing
>>
>> - Generation of printouts is faster (and postscript files are
>> smaller) as a result of minimizing the incidence of missing fonts
>> (which must be generated).
>>
>> - The HTML paragraph tag is disabled when printing tables to
>> prevent hung print jobs.
>>
>>
>> Localization
>>
>> - New translations and improvements were made for the German interface.
>>
>>
>> Appearance
>>
>> - More interface standardization using the following display elements:
>> - Data tables with rows of alternating light/dark background
>> colors, and a colored header.
>> - Two column data tables with a colored left column, and light
>> gray right column.
>> - Boxes with a thin border used to group similar items together.
>>
>>
>> Installation Notes:
>>
>> To use this release you need to have version 1-12 of LONCAPA-prerequisites
>> installed (this is the same version as used with LON-CAPA 2.7). You
>> will need to update the version of perl-DateTime installed on your
>> server to perl-DateTime-0.4304-1.
>>
>> To install this update:
>>
>> 1) You will need to be running Fedora Core 6, 7, 8, or 9, 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.)
>>
>> 2) Update perl-DateTime to 0.4304.
>>
>> (a) Fedora
>> yum update
>>
>> (b) RedHat Enterprise 4
>>
>> up2date -u perl-DateTime
>>
>> (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 perl-DateTime
>>
>> On all distributions, it is recommended that you check that you have
>> the correct versions of LONCAPA-prerequisites and perl-DateTime
>> installed before proceeding.
>>
>> rpm -q LONCAPA-prerequisites
>>
>> should report:
>> LONCAPA-prerequisites-1-12.X
>>
>> rpm -q perl-DateTime
>>
>> should report:
>> perl-DateTime-0.4304-1.X
>>
>> (where X is a distro identifier e.g., fc7.lc)
>>
>> 3) Download the new LON-CAPA tarball from
>> wget http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-2.8.0.tar.gz
>>
>> and untar it
>>
>> tar xzvf loncapa-2.8.0.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 10.1,2,3/SLES 10:
>> /etc/init.d/apache2 stop
>>
>>
>> 6) Run the UPDATE script as root
>> cd loncapa-2.8.0
>> 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 10.1,2,3/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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