[LON-CAPA-dev] Re: SuSE installation

[Martin Siegert]

Hi Jim,

I am using the free one. I have switched almost all of my Linux servers
now to that distribution and I have not found anything missing really.
It is actually more complete than anything else out there.

Which tools did you find missing?

Cheers,
Martin

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 02:25:01PM -0700, Jim Maxka wrote:
> 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