[LON-CAPA-admin] LON-CAPA Version 2.9.0
Todd Ruskell
todd.ruskell at gmail.com
Thu Jun 3 18:12:51 EDT 2010
Woonki,
I've had similar issues before. Stuart pointed me to the EPEL repositories,
and that generally fixed everything nicely.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
Hopefully it will also work for you.
Todd
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Woonki Chung <chung at georgetown.edu> wrote:
> For a RedHat Enterprise 4 system, "up2date -u LONCAPA-prerequisites"
> complains dependencies. (See the output below) Do I have to install them
> manually??
>
> Thanks,
> Woonki
>
> # up2date -u LONCAPA-prerequisites
>
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-x86_64-as-4...
>
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-x86_64-as-4-extras...
>
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: loncapa-updates...
>
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: loncapa-updates-noarch...
>
> Fetching rpm headers...
> ########################################
>
> Name Version Rel
> Arch
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> LONCAPA-prerequisites 1 18.EAS4
> x86_64
>
>
> Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
>
> Downloading headers to solve dependencies...
> #######################################
> Downloading headers to solve dependencies...
> There was a package dependency problem. The message was:
>
> Unresolvable chain of dependencies:
> LONCAPA-prerequisites 1-18.EAS4 requires perl-CAM-PDF
> LONCAPA-prerequisites 1-18.EAS4 requires perl-LaTeX-Table
> LONCAPA-prerequisites 1-18.EAS4 requires perl-Tie-IxHash-Easy
> LONCAPA-prerequisites 1-18.EAS4 requires tetex-acrotex
> LONCAPA-prerequisites 1-18.EAS4 requires tetex-xcolor
> R-core 2.10.1-1.el4 requires
> perl(File::Copy::Recursive)
>
>
> The following packages were added to your selection to satisfy
> dependencies:
> Package Required by
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Stuart Raeburn wrote:
>
>> New Version 2.9.0 Released
>>
>> Changes from 2.8.1:
>>
>> Authoring Resources
>>
>> - CSS, javascript and plain text files (.css, .js, and .txt extensions)
>> can be edited.
>> - Assistant Co-authors can browse directories in the repository of
>> published resources
>> belonging to author(s) to whom they are assigned as assistant co-author.
>> - The "Edit Math" button (which launches a pop-up Math expression editor)
>> is available
>> when editing HTML files.
>> - Adaptive hints are available for reactionresponse and organicresponse
>> types.
>> - The R statistics package can be used in place of Maxima as a Computer
>> Algebra
>> system (CAS) in mathresponse and formularesponse problems. R can also be
>> used to
>> generate data sets in problems by using calls to appropriate cas routines
>> within a
>> script block. Example templates are provided.
>> - Custom Response problems can award partial credit for problems
>> containing multiple
>> answers.
>> - In dynamic plots (GNUplot) - x and y axis zero lines can be displayed as
>> regular lines,
>> thick lines, or as dotted lines.
>> - Checkbox attribute for simple two-option optionresponse type allows
>> checkboxes to be
>> used instead of two item select box (e.g., for True/False). See:
>> SimpleTrueFalse
>> problem template.
>>
>> Student Interface
>>
>> - Information about resources for which access is controlled by
>> reservation (i.e., slots)
>> is displayed on the "Table of Contents" page (renamed from "Navigate
>> Contents").
>> - Students within a course can access a "Manage Reservations" utility from
>> the Main Menu.
>> This may be used to view and change reservations, and also display a log
>> of reservation
>> transactions.
>> - When a user initiates the reset password process for an internally
>> authenticated
>> account, the e-mail address entered in the web form can now be any of:
>> permanent email,
>> critical notification email or regular notification email.
>> - Courses with access start dates which were in the future when the
>> student logged in,
>> will become selectable from the courses screen, once the start date has
>> been reached,
>> without the need for logout/login.
>> - Course Configuration for "Grading" includes a mode to not show total
>> parts when a
>> student displays his/her grading information.
>>
>> Communication
>>
>> - When rendering discussion posts and other feedback for the web, new
>> lines will no
>> longer be automatically converted to <br /> tags if HTML block elements
>> are detected
>> (suggesting the author had used HTML originally during composition).
>>
>> Course/Community Management
>>
>> - A "Course/Community requests" icon is included in the "My Roles" or "My
>> Courses"
>> category if the user has rights to create courses or communities in their
>> home domain,
>> and/or in another domain.
>> - Course Configuration (previously "Set Course Environment") has been
>> moved to the top
>> level ("Main Menu") and divided into separate sections, with permitted
>> user input
>> constrained by radio buttons, select boxes, checkboxes, etc., in place of
>> unrestricted
>> entry via textboxes.
>> - The Course Owner can assign the Course Coordinator role in a course to
>> other users.
>> - The Course Owner can declare other Course Coordinators as "Co-owners",
>> who can choose
>> to accept or deny co-ownership assignment. (Your institution may use
>> co-ownership to
>> permit access to institutional course rosters by the automated enrollment
>> process).
>> Co-owners are listed in the Course/Community Catalog, and can be used as
>> a filter when
>> searching for courses.
>> - Alternative titles may be specified for standard role titles (e.g.,
>> Teaching Assistant
>> etc.) in a course.
>> - HTML documents uploaded directly to a course can be edited by a Course
>> Coordinator.
>> - The template displayed when creating custom roles depends on course type
>> (Course or
>> Community).
>> - Coordinators can require all self-enrollment requests to be approved,
>> and can specify
>> which Coordinators should be notified when a self-enrollment request
>> needs approval.
>> - Coordinators can set an enrollment limit, which when reached will
>> prevent new
>> self-enrollments.
>> - A link to the course request page is displayed after log-in if a user
>> has no active
>> roles, and has rights to request creation of courses/communities.
>> - Slot reservation transactions are logged, and Coordinators/Instructors
>> can view the
>> history of reservation changes for a particular slot from the "History"
>> link in the
>> slots table.
>> - "External" documents which may be included in a course (and display a
>> web page from
>> an external site in a frameset within LON-CAPA) are now more robust
>> (e.g., trailing
>> "&" trimmed from query string etc.).
>> - Coordinators/Instructors are warned if there is a version discrepancy if
>> the same
>> resource is used more than once in a course, and the versions are
>> different.
>> - When a Coordinator uploads a file to a course, a check to determine if
>> it is an HTML
>> file will occur if the option to look for embedded objects was checked.
>>
>> Grading
>>
>> - Problems including randomlists are now supported for Bubblesheet grading
>> (and verification).
>> - When grading Bridge Tasks an additional check is made for consistency of
>> username,
>> domain and resource identifier between the grading key and the data to be
>> submitted.
>> - The Bubblesheet Data Uploader's upload screen now includes a link to the
>> syllabus
>> for the course selected to receive the data file. A comparison is made
>> between the
>> student populations in the course roster and in the bubblesheet data
>> (based on
>> student/employee ID), to try to detect uploads to the wrong course.
>> - For Bubblesheet Data Uploaders picking a destination course, the
>> institutional code
>> textbox is replaced with linked select boxes (e.g., year, semester,
>> department, number),
>> as used in Course Catalog (if configured in the domain). The course
>> owner/co-owner" row
>> is replaced with "Course personnel includes: " row which can be used to
>> search for
>> courses where a specified username:domain has active non-student role.
>>
>> Domain Coordination/Domain Settings
>>
>> - Firewall configuration for traffic between LON-CAPA servers now
>> restricts
>> port access to IPs for servers currently in the LON-CAPA cluster. The
>> nightly cron
>> process which checks LON-CAPA connections will update the firewall for
>> any
>> changes in membership of the cluster.
>> - Display of the log-in page for specific servers in a domain can be
>> replaced by
>> automatic redirection to a different server (e.g., to a LON-CAPA load
>> balancer server,
>> used solely for authentication and session switching).
>> - Domain Coordinators can modify institutional status for users in their
>> domain.
>> - A new configuration is available to set which users may request creation
>> of:
>> (a) official courses, (b) unofficial courses, or (c) communities.
>> - Communities are similar to courses except the Coordinator may only
>> browse areas
>> of the shared LON-CAPA repository for which he/she has an author or
>> co-author role.
>> - Course/Community requests may be set to be processed automatically,
>> queued for approval
>> by a Domain Coordinator, or (for official courses) validated against the
>> institutional
>> instructor of record.
>> - Domain Coordinators can permit course requests to be made by users from
>> other domains,
>> on a user-by-user basis.
>> - A Domain Coordinator can set which affiliations within the institution
>> (e.g., Faculty,
>> Staff etc.) may create his/her own account (applies to institutional
>> login/SSO only).
>> - The course creation menu includes additional links: (a) display course
>> requests queued
>> pending approval by a Domain Coordinator; (b) display requests for
>> official courses
>> queued pending institutional validation; (c) display a log of course
>> creation history.
>> - The "Edit this resource" link is displayed to a Domain Coordinator in
>> course context,
>> if the domain of the resource author is the domain of the current role.
>> - The aggregate database of courses in a domain used when searching for a
>> course (e.g.,
>> when selecting an ad hoc role, choosing a course to clone etc.) is
>> rebuilt nightly
>> by cron from permanent data stored in each course's environment.db file.
>> - Domain Coordinators may filter by time elapsed since course creation
>> when using the
>> course picker (e.g., to select an ad hoc role, assign a Course
>> Coordinator role etc.).
>> - A domain may be configured to automatically assign co-ownership status
>> when a Course
>> Coordinator role becomes active in an official course, if the Coordinator
>> is official
>> course personnel (requires customization of localenroll.pm).
>> - Domain Coordinators may delete entries in personal information fields
>> (i.e., name,
>> permanent e-mail address) if a value has been set previously.
>> - Domain Coordinators may allow users to choose (via a User Preference) to
>> prevent
>> updates to information fields by a nightly automated update which
>> synchronizes LON-CAPA
>> with institutional directory data.
>> - Nightly removal of stale files in /home/httpd/perl/tmp will descend into
>> sub-directories
>> and also remove stale files from them.
>>
>> Printing
>>
>> - Printouts of PDF files within a folder (both in a course and in
>> Construction Space)
>> can be generated.
>> - The default font size in printouts can be set by Course Coordinators and
>> Authors/Co-authors.
>> - Composite pages (.page) can be printed in Construction Space and also
>> printed with
>> answers.
>> - Composite pages (.page) containing numerical problems can be printed
>> when set to exam
>> mode.
>> - Composite pages (.page) can be printed for selected students.
>> - The syllabus can be printed when generating printouts of resources for
>> selected
>> students.
>> - Printing of tables has been standardized to use the perl LaTeX::Table
>> module.
>>
>> Localization
>>
>> - New translations and improvements are provided for both the German and
>> Spanish
>> interfaces.
>> - UTF-8 encoding is used for all browsers (including Internet Explorer).
>> - The time zone of the local server is cached, and translations of phrases
>> are also
>> cached to improve performance.
>>
>> Accessibility
>> - An alt attribute (which includes the raw TeX) is supplied for use by
>> screen readers
>> when MimeTex images are used to render math expressions.
>> - Raw mode (will output raw TeX) is available as an additional option for
>> rendering
>> math expressions.
>>
>> 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.
>> - More muted colors, and standard data table used for Roles/Courses
>> screen.
>>
>> Installation Notes:
>>
>> To use this release you need to have version 1-18 of LONCAPA-prerequisites
>> installed.
>>
>> To install this update:
>>
>> 1) You will need to be running Fedora Core 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12,
>> RHEL (AS|ES) 4 or 5, SUSE 10.2, 10.3, 11.1 or 11.2, SLES 9, 10 or 11,
>> CentOS 5, or Scientific Linux 5.
>> (Fedora Core 5 should continue to work but is deprecated.)
>>
>> 2) Update LONCAPA-prerequisites to 1-18.
>>
>> (a) Fedora
>> yum update
>>
>> (b) RedHat Enterprise 4
>>
>> up2date -u LONCAPA-prerequisites
>>
>> (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
>>
>> On all distributions, it is recommended that you check that you have
>> the correct versions of LONCAPA-prerequisites installed before proceeding.
>>
>> rpm -q LONCAPA-prerequisites
>>
>> should report:
>> LONCAPA-prerequisites-1-18.X
>>
>> (where X is a distro identifier e.g., fc12.lc)
>>
>> 3) Download the new LON-CAPA tarball from
>> wget http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-2.9.0.tar.gz
>>
>> and untar it
>>
>> tar xzvf loncapa-2.9.0.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 10.2,10.3,11.1,11.2/SLES 10,11:
>> /etc/init.d/apache2 stop
>>
>>
>> 6) Run the UPDATE script as root
>> cd loncapa-2.9.0
>> 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 10.2,10.3,11.1,11.2/SLES 10,11:
>> /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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