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1: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 2: "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 3:  4: <html> 5: <head> 6: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></meta> 7: <title>How to Download</title> 8:  9:  10: </head> 11: <body bgcolor='#ffffff'> 12:  13:   14: 15: The LON-CAPA files are released in a single <tt>*.tar.gz</tt> file. 16: 17: <ul> 18: <li><a href="#download">Source code of LON-CAPA</a>, it 19: provides you with 20: + network connectivity with other LON-CAPA computers around the world 21: + processing and delivery of course material and problem sets to your 22: students 23: + classroom and course management 24: + extensive new functionality for your web server 25: + tools for monitoring the state of your system 26: </li> 27: </ul> 28: 29: After the download, please read the pages describing the 30: <a href="/docs/reconfig/index.html">configuration</a>, 31: <a href="/docs/install/index.html">installation</a>, 32: and 33: <a href="/docs/upgrade/index.html">upgrading</a> of LON-CAPA. 34: 35: NOTE: Additional downloads are also available. 36: <ul> 37: <li><a href="#resources">Helpful resources for LON-CAPA</a>, 38: + an integrated approach for quickly installing both RedHat 7.3 39: and LON-CAPA (to ensure 100% reliability) 40: + software packages for the quick installation of CPAN perl modules 41: </li> 42: </ul> 43:   44:  45:  46: 47: <a name="download" /> 48: Source code of LON-CAPA 49: 50: 51: Current Release is Version LATESTVERSION. 52: This version was released on LATESTDATE. 53: 54: 55: You can download the most current version of LON-CAPA at 56: <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-current.tar.gz"> 57: http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-current.tar.gz</a> 58: (version LATESTVERSION). 59: 60: 61: The development release of LON-CAPA is at: 62: <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-unstable.tar.gz"> 63: http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-unstable.tar.gz</a>. 64: 65: 66: To view the code development history of LON-CAPA, you will need to use the 67: <a href="http://www.cvshome.org/">CVS</a> tool, the open standard for 68: version control. Please contact Helen (<a href="mailto:helen@lon-capa.org"> 69: helen@lon-capa.org</a>) to request a CVS USERNAME. 70: 71: 72: The initial CVS commands would be: 73: 74: <blockquote> 75: <table bgcolor="#aaaaaa" border="1"> 76: <tr><td> 77: <pre> 78: export CVSROOT=:pserver:USERNAME@zaphod.lite.msu.edu:/home/cvs 79: cvs login 80: cvs co loncapa 81: </pre> 82: </td></tr></table> 83: </blockquote> 84: 85: For more information on using CVS, please visit 86: <a href="http://www.cvshome.org/">http://www.cvshome.org/</a> 87: or read <tt>loncom/build/readme.html</tt> after downloading 88: the current version of LON-CAPA as described above. 89: 90: 91: <a name="resources" /> 92: Helpful resources for LON-CAPA 93: 94: 95: The entire collection of helpful resources is located 96: at <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/resources/"> 97: http://install.lon-capa.org/resources/</a>. 98: 99: 100: Most users of LON-CAPA should install LON-CAPA by 101: simultaneously installing both RedHat 7.3 and LON-CAPA. 102: Step-by-step directions are available 103: <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/resources/stepbystep_rh73.html">here</a>. 104: 105: 106: The "LON-CAPA and RedHat 7.3" tarball is located 107: <a 108: href="http://install.loncapa.org/resources/loncapa-rh73install.tar">here</a>. 109: 110: 111: LON-CAPA makes extensive use of perl modules from 112: <a href="http://www.cpan.org/">CPAN</a>. To help you install all 113: the necessary perl modules, there is a custom-compiled RPM for 114: RedHat 7.* systems: 115: <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/resources/LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.5-rh7.i386.rpm"> 116: LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.5-rh7.i386.rpm</a>. 117: 118: 119: For RedHat 6.2 systems, you should instead use 120: <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/resources/LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.5-1.i386.rpm"> 121: LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.5-1.i386.rpm</a>. 122: 123: 124: To install the systemperl RPM, you should enter the following command: 125: 126: <blockquote> 127: <table bgcolor="#aaaaaa" border="1"> 128: <tr><td> 129: <pre> 130: rpm -Uvh --force LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.5-rh7.i386.rpm 131: </pre> 132: </td></tr></table> 133: </blockquote> 134: 135: The systemperl RPM will overwrite some of 136: the files present in the regular RedHat perl RPM. 137: This is okay; this will not likely cause problems. 138: 139:  140:  141: </body> 142: </html>