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1.1     ! ng          1: Scott Harrison
        !             2: June 21, 2001
        !             3: 
        !             4: NORMAL PEOPLE INSTALL LON-CAPA WITH THE INSTALLATION
        !             5: CD ON A FRESH SYSTEM.
        !             6: 
        !             7: IF YOU ARE A FREAKZOID, READ BELOW.
        !             8: 
        !             9: 1.  disable shadow and md5sum passwords
        !            10: remove 'md5 shadow' from 'password required' lines in
        !            11: /etc/pam.d/login
        !            12: /etc/pam.d/passwd
        !            13: 
        !            14: then run /usr/sbin/pwunconv and
        !            15: /usr/sbin/grpunconv
        !            16: 
        !            17: and then, manually enter in all your passwords again
        !            18: first for root
        !            19: passwd
        !            20: and then the usernames...
        !            21: passwd username1
        !            22: passwd username2
        !            23: 
        !            24: 2.  make sure you have a web server
        !            25: 
        !            26: 3.  make sure you have mod_perl
        !            27: http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource/RedHat/RPMS/mod_perl-1.23-3.i386.rpm
        !            28: 
        !            29: 4.  cvs co loncapa (see install.lon-capa.org for instructions)
        !            30: 
        !            31: 5.  Install the LON-CAPA-base RPM
        !            32: http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource/RedHat/RPMS/LON-CAPA-base-3.1-1.i386.rpm
        !            33: rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps /home/ng/RPMS/LON-CAPA-base-3.1-1.i386.rpm
        !            34: 
        !            35: 6.  Add a user www.
        !            36:     /usr/sbin/adduser www
        !            37: 
        !            38: 7.  make sure you have all the needed RPMs
        !            39:     as root, cd loncapa/loncom/build; make rpmstatuspost
        !            40:     look at the status of your RPMS
        !            41:     http://MACHINENAME/lon-status/rpmstatus.html
        !            42: 
        !            43:     install/upgrade the ones you don't have
        !            44:     probably start with the out-of-date RPMs
        !            45:     and then run make rpmstatuspost again
        !            46: 
        !            47:     install RPMs from the minimal set
        !            48:     (you might want to be a little selective here.. like, you
        !            49:      don't "need" autofs)
        !            50: 
        !            51:     install RPMs from the development set
        !            52:     (you might want to be a LOT selective here)
        !            53: 
        !            54: 8.  update LON-CAPA-base files with CVS
        !            55:     cvs update -d
        !            56:     cd loncom/build
        !            57:     make install; make configinstall
        !            58: 
        !            59: 9.  run /usr/sbin/loncapaconfig and change the settings on your
        !            60:     machine
        !            61: 
        !            62: 10. restart all the services
        !            63: /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart
        !            64: /etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol restart