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

[Martin Siegert]

Hi Guy, 

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 07:00:46PM -0400, Guy Albertelli II wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> > would it be possible to get a list of the LONCAPA prerequisites,
> 
> >From the .spec file:
> 
> Requires:
> apache			o
> gd				*
> perl-GD			*
> perl-GD-Barcode		o
> perl-GDGraph			*
> perl-GD-Graph3d		*
> perl-GDTextUtil		*
> gnuplot			*
> ImageMagick			*
> ImageMagick-perl		o
> perl-suidperl			o   (do I really need this?)
> mod_perl_1			o
> mysql				*
> mysql-server			*
> perl-DBD-MySQL		*
> perl-DBI			*
> perl-Algorithm-Diff		*
> perl-Authen-Krb4		o
> perl-Authen-Krb5		o
> perl-Authen-PAM		o
> perl-Crypt-DES		*
> perl-Crypt-IDEA		o
> perl-Crypt-SSLeay		*
> perl-Event			*
> perl-HTML-Tree		*
> perl-IO-Socket-SSL		*
> perl-IO-stringy		*
> perl-MailTools		*
> perl-Math-Cephes		o
> perl-Math-FFT			o
> perl-Math-Random		o
> perl-Net-PH			o
> perl-Net-SNPP			*   (assuming this is perl-Net-SNMP?)
> perl-Net-SSLeay		*
> perl-OLE-Storage_Lite		o
> perl-Parse-RecDescent		*
> perl-Pod-POM			o
> perl-PostScript-Simple	*
> perl-Safe-Hole		o
> perl-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel	*
> perl-String-Similarity	o
> perl-Text-Aspell		o
> perl-Text-Query		o
> perl-TimeDate			*
> perl-Time-HiRes		o
> aspell			*
> perl-MIME-Lite		*
> perl-MIME-Types		*

This does not look too bad: * means included with SuSE-9.1, o means missing.

> Requires: apache <= 2.0
> Requires: perl-HTML-Parser = 3.36-2.loncapa
> Conflicts: httpd php mod_throttle mod_bandwidth
> Conflicts: mod_perl

Does this mean apache < 2.0 or would something like apache-2.0.49 actually
work? How do you actually fulfill that requirement under Fedora 2?
There is no apache package ...

Do you have a src.rpm of this package. I'd like to rebuild it.

> > in particular, the list of rpm packages that need to be installed?
> > Anything else that is done differently compared to RH 7.3?
> 
> No differences except for the list of rpms that is to be installed.
> 
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> 
> Note that apache 2 and mod_perl 1.99_X _DO_NOT_ work correctly

This means that I better build something like apache-1.3.28 and
mod_perl-1.28 myself? (should not be difficult: I would just rebuild
the SuSE-9.0 rpms - SuSE-9.0 still has apache-1 support).

> We have custom built mod_perl 1.2X to work under Fedora (Mainly you
> need to be running perl 5.8.3 for it to work)

SuSE-9.1 has perl-5.8.3.

> Thus the mod_perl_1 package above, and the conflicts with apache
> greater than 2.
> 
> We also have customized the build of
> - perl-Authen-Krb4
> - perl-HTML-Parser

SuSE-9.1 has perl-HTML-Parser-3.35, SuSE-9.0 has perl-HTML-Parser-3.28.
Would either of the two work or should I rebuild your 
perl-HTML-Parser-3.36-2.loncapa?

I guess I do not need perl-Authen-Krb4, if I do not use kerberos?

> We also suggest gnuplot 4.0 since with that we move away from needing
> gif support in GD or anywhere else.

Did you build gnuplot-4.0 from source or do you have a rpm for that as well?

> The rest of the CPAN modules rpms are builds straight from CPAN.

One more question: Is there a way to completely uninstall loncapa from a
machine? I'd like to start from scratch once more ...

Cheers,
Martin