[LON-CAPA-dev] Re: SuSE installation

[Jim Maxka]

Hi Martin
I am very interested in your project.  Are you referring to the $50 
academic version of 9.1 or the free one.  The free one doesn't seem to 
have many tools built in.  --jim

Martin Siegert wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Just an update:
>I succeeded to compile a bunch of rpms for SuSE-9.1:
>
>apache-1.3.28-76.i586.rpm
>apache-devel-1.3.28-76.i586.rpm
>apache-doc-1.3.28-76.i586.rpm
>apache-example-pages-1.3.28-76.i586.rpm
>gnuplot-4.0.0-1.i586.rpm
>krb5-devel-1.3.4-8.i586.rpm
>mod_perl-1.28-102.i586.rpm
>perl-Authen-Krb4-1.1-2.i586.rpm
>perl-Authen-Krb5-1.3-2.i586.rpm
>perl-Authen-PAM-0.14-1.i586.rpm
>perl-Crypt-IDEA-1.02-1.i586.rpm
>perl-GD-Barcode-1.15-1.i586.rpm
>perl-HTML-Parser-3.35-32.i586.rpm
>perl-Math-Cephes-0.42-1.i586.rpm
>perl-Math-FFT-0.25-1.i586.rpm
>perl-Math-Random-0.67-1.i586.rpm
>perl-Net-PH-2.21-1.i586.rpm
>perl-OLE-Storage_Lite-0.13-1.i586.rpm
>perl-Pod-POM-0.15-1.i586.rpm
>perl-Safe-Hole-0.10-1.i586.rpm
>perl-String-Similarity-1-1.i586.rpm
>perl-Text-Aspell-0.04-1.i586.rpm
>perl-Text-Query-0.07-1.i586.rpm
>
>Of these the krb5-devel package is not required (and should not be installed).
>It is required to build the perl-Authen-Krb4 and perl-Authen-Krb5 packages,
>which are by far the biggest obstacle for running LON-CAPA on a SuSE-9.1
>system: SuSE uses the heimdal kerberos implementation without krb4 support
>compiled in. For that reason the perl-Authen-Krb4 module does not compile.
>The bigger problem, however, is the perl-Authen-Krb5: the author of that
>module decided not to use the published krb5 API of the kerberos library,
>but use internal functions of the MIT implementation (arrghhh). Thus,
>there is no hope to compile this on a native SuSE-9.1 box. I finally
>succeeded by building the krb5-devel package (from the Fedora 2 src.rpm),
>which includes only the krb5 header files and static libraries. This then
>was used to compile the perl-Authen-Krb4 and perl-Authen-Krb5 packages.
>Therefore, there is no dependency on the krb5-devel package.
>
>Building all the other rpm packages is more or less trivial.
>
>I will now try to install LON-CAPA-1.2 on this machine. Stay tuned.
>
>Cheers,
>Martin
>
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