[LON-CAPA-dev] Fedora only: LONCAPA prerequisites rpm and yum

[Martin Siegert]

Hi Matthew,

would it be possible to get a list of the LONCAPA prerequisites,
in particular, the list of rpm packages that need to be installed?
Anything else that is done differently compared to RH 7.3?

Background:
I'd like to install LONCAPA on a SuSE-9.1 box (new access server).
The main components (2.6 kernel, apache2) seem to be similar to
Fedora 2. Thus, I should get fairly far by doing installing LONCAPA
accoding to Fedora 2 rules. Just the yum stuff won't work.

Cheers,
Martin

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 10:31:27AM -0400, Matthew Brian Hall wrote:
> 
> Hi all, 
> 
> The following is for Fedora systems only: 
> 
> I've been working the last couple of days on a LONCAPA-prerequisites rpm.  
> This rpm only specifies the dependencies and conflicts for LONCAPA and does 
> not contain any LONCAPA code.  Nevertheless it will be a useful way for us 
> to keep the Fedora machines up to date with our every growing list of 
> dependencies. 
> 
> Please modify your /etc/yum.conf file to contain the following two entries 
> (note: this is different from my earlier yum.conf instructions): 
> 
> [loncapa-updates]
> name= Fedora Core $releasever LON-CAPA i386 Updates
> baseurl=http://install.loncapa.org/fedora/linux/loncapa/$releasever/$basearc 
> h 
> [loncapa-updates-noarch]
> name= Fedora Core $releasever LON-CAPA noarch Updates
> baseurl=http://install.loncapa.org/fedora/linux/loncapa/$releasever/noarch 
> 
> 
> Once that is done issue the following commands to get and install the 
> LONCAPA dependencies: 
> 
> # yum update 
> 
> # yum install LONCAPA-prerequisites 
> 
> 
> Please get back to me if you run into any trouble or have any difficulty. 
> 
> Matthew 
> 
> ---------------------------------------
> Matthew Hall           hallmat3@msu.edu
> LON-CAPA developer
> Michigan State University
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