[LON-CAPA-cvs] cvs: doc /build manual_install.frag

[bowersj2]

bowersj2		Tue Aug 19 10:07:00 2003 EDT

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  Add download info.
  
  
Index: doc/build/manual_install.frag
diff -u doc/build/manual_install.frag:1.1 doc/build/manual_install.frag:1.2
--- doc/build/manual_install.frag:1.1	Tue Aug 19 09:53:44 2003
+++ doc/build/manual_install.frag	Tue Aug 19 10:07:00 2003
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 <p>
 You will need to check all the following things to ensure proper
-installation of your LON-CAPA system.
+installation of your LON-CAPA system. Be sure to use the <a
+href="rh73.html">RedHat 7.3 specific instructions</a> if they apply,
+as that will be much easier for you.
 </p>
 <ul>
+<li><a href="#download">Downloading LON-CAPA</a></li>
 <li><a href="#wwwuser">
 Creating a user 'www'</a></li>
 <li><a href="#shadow">
@@ -19,6 +22,50 @@
 Testing to see if the LON-CAPA server is operational</a></li>
 </ul>
 
+<a name="download" />
+<h3>Downloading LON-CAPA</h3>
+
+<p>
+<b>Current Release is Version LATESTVERSION.
+This version was released on LATESTDATE.</b>
+</p>
+<p>
+You can download the most current version of LON-CAPA at
+<a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-current.tar.gz">
+http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-current.tar.gz</a>
+(version LATESTVERSION).
+</p>
+<p>
+The development release of LON-CAPA is at:
+<a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-unstable.tar.gz">
+http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-unstable.tar.gz</a>.
+</p>
+<p>
+To view the code development history of LON-CAPA, you will need to use the
+<a href="http://www.cvshome.org/">CVS</a> tool, the open standard for
+version control.  Please contact Helen (<a href="mailto:helen@lon-capa.org">
+helen@lon-capa.org</a>) to request a CVS USERNAME.
+</p>
+<p>
+The initial CVS commands would be:
+</p>
+<blockquote>
+<table bgcolor="#aaaaaa" border="1">
+<tr><td>
+<pre>
+export CVSROOT=:pserver:USERNAME@zaphod.lite.msu.edu:/home/cvs 
+cvs login 
+cvs co loncapa
+</pre>
+</td></tr></table>
+</blockquote>
+<p>
+For more information on using CVS, please visit
+<a href="http://www.cvshome.org/">http://www.cvshome.org/</a>
+or read <tt>loncom/build/readme.html</tt> after downloading
+the current version of LON-CAPA as described above.
+</p>
+
 <a name="wwwuser" />
 <h3>Creating a user 'www'</h3>
 <p>
@@ -165,7 +212,15 @@
 <p>If you are not installing on RedHat, you may need to manually
 install some software. The following pointers may be useful:</p>
 
-<ul><li>LON-CAPA uses a lot of Perl modules. The easiest way to figure
+<ul><li>LON-CAPA uses a lot of Perl modules. If you are using RedHat,
+go to <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/resources">this
+directory</a> and download the latest
+<b>LON-CAPA-systemperl-?.?-rh7.i386.rpm</b>, which will contain all
+the Perl modules you need on RedHat. Use <tt>rpm-Uvh --force</tt> to
+install the RPM; this will overwrite some currently existing files and
+that's OK.
+
+<br /><br />For other Linux distributions, the easiest way to figure
 out what Perl modules are being used by LON-CAPA that you do not have
 installed is to try to start up LON-CAPA and see what Perl complains
 about missing. Start by trying to run <tt>/home/httpd/perl/lonc</tt>