Subject: [LON-CAPA-dev] 1.2.99.0

From: Guy Albertelli II <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:08:32 -0500 (EST)

Hi All,

New Version 1.2.99.0 Released

Codename "Yum"

WARNING: YOU WILL NEED TO UPGRADE TO FEDORA (or a linux distribution
with Perl 5.8 at least)

Known Issues:
- probably lots of little things, probably not wise to install this i
   on a machine you care about

Notable Changes:
- map conditions should work
- encrypturl works
- lots of discussion enhancements
- survey mode works with all problem types
- student tracking
- plenty of things that I am forgetting
- support for 64bit machines

To install this update:

1) You will need to be running Fedora Core 2 or 3 to work

2) Use yum to update your machine and then install the
      LONCAPA-prerequisites

yum update
yum install LONCAPA-prerequisites

3) Download the new LON-CAPA tarball from
wget http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-1.2.99.0.tar.gz

and untar it

tar xzvf loncapa-1.2.99.0.tar.gz
or
tar xzvf loncapa-fedora-1.2.99.0.tar.gz

4) Run the UPDATE script as root
cd loncapa-1.2.99.0
su
./UPDATE

5) restart the system services
/etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd 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

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