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LON-CAPA Upgrade

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Current Upgrade Procedure (Almost)

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-LON-CAPA system releases currently are not released under version -numbers given the fast pace of system development. To upgrade your -system, you need to -

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  1. Make sure your software packages are up-to-date (based on www.lon-capa.org). - -
  2. Upgrade old software packages. - -
  3. Restore configuration files. - -
  4. Should you wish to automate all of this, you can (at your own risk) enable a script which will -do all of this automatically. This definitely should NOT be implemented on a system that students -are using). You can enable this script by entering the command: -cp /usr/sbin/loncapaautoupgrade /etc/cron.daily/loncapaautoupgrade -
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Future Upgrade Procedure (not yet implemented)

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-In the future, LON-CAPA will be a versioned system that is released via CD. -The upgrade procedure will be to insert the CD and follow instructions. The CD -upgrade procedure is already defined and somewhat implemented, but awaits -completion. -

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+There are three steps for upgrading the software on your LON-CAPA server. +

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Upgrading LON-CAPA files

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+Download the most current + +loncapa.tar.gz. +

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+The UPDATE command will refresh your filesystem with all +the latest LON-CAPA software. +

+ + +
./UPDATE
+ +

Checking your Linux RPMs

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+The CHECKRPMS command will check the RPMs on your machine +against an FTP repository. +

+ + +
./CHECKRPMS
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Testing to see if the LON-CAPA server is operational

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+The TEST command will check the installation software, +the perl libraries on your system, the MySQL database, and +will also automatically test the real-time operation of the +LON-CAPA Apache web server. +

+ + +
./TEST
+

+Using the TEST command will likely +be an iterative process. +It is normal to expect that the TEST command +will recommend you perform various steps to ensure optimal +performance of your LON-CAPA server. +

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