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 <head><title>New installation instructions</title></head>  <head><title>New installation instructions</title></head>
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 <h1>Installing LON-CAPA on a Fedora Core 2 Linux System</h1>  <h1>Installing LON-CAPA on a minimal Fedora Core 2 Linux System</h1>
 <p>  <p>
 This document guides you through the process of setting up a new LON-CAPA  This document guides you through the process of setting up a new LON-CAPA
 server running Fedora Core 2 (FC2).  The computer will be configured solely as  server running Fedora Core 2 (FC2) with a minimum of packages installed.  
 a LON-CAPA server and will be expected to have no other services running  The computer will be configured solely as a LON-CAPA server and will be 
 on it.  expected to have no other services running.  Your server is expected to have
   a reasonably fast connection to the internet.
 </p><p>  </p><p>
 More information is available at <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/">  More information is available at <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/">
 http://install.lon-capa.org/</a>.  http://install.lon-capa.org/</a>.
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 <h2>Obtain Fedora Linux</h2>  <h2>Obtain Fedora Linux</h2>
 <p>  <p>
 Fedora linux ISO files can be obtained from the projects main site,  FC2 ISO files can be obtained from the projects main site,
 <a href="http://fedora.redhat.com/">http://fedora.redhat.com/</a>.  <a href="http://fedora.redhat.com/">http://fedora.redhat.com/</a>.
 </p>  You will need only the first ISO image for the minimal install.
   </p> 
   
 <h2>Determine Network Settings</h2>  <h2>Determine Network Settings</h2>
 <p>  <p>
Line 58  DHCP is <em>not</em> supported. Line 60  DHCP is <em>not</em> supported.
   <li>domain name server(s) </li>    <li>domain name server(s) </li>
 </ul>  </ul>
   
 <h2>Install Fedora</h2>  <h2>Minimal FC2 Install</h2>
 <p>  <p>
 Installing Fedora is quite easy if you've installed any of the Red Hat products  Installing Fedora is quite easy if you've installed any of the Red Hat products
 before.  Some documentation is available from   before.  Some documentation is available from 
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        Additional ports used by LON-CAPA are 5663 and 8080.           Additional ports used by LON-CAPA are 5663 and 8080.  
        Enter these in the entry box as <nobr>"5663:tcp, 8080:tcp"</nobr>.</dd>         Enter these in the entry box as <nobr>"5663:tcp, 8080:tcp"</nobr>.</dd>
    <dt>Package Group Selection</dt>     <dt>Package Group Selection</dt>
    <dd>     <dd>Choose 'minimal install'</dd>
        <b>Do not</b> install a web server.  It is intentially omitted from  
        this list.  Installing packages not listed below is not recommended.  
        If you install packages not listed below you should expect difficulties  
        when installing the LON-CAPA dependencies.  
       <ul>  
          <li>Editors</li>  
          <li>Text Based Internet</li>  
          <li>Authoring and Publishing</li>  
          <li>Server Configuration Tools</li>  
          <li>Development Tools</li>  
          <li>Administration Tools</li>  
          <li>Printing Support</li>  
       </ul>  
    </dd>  
 </dl>  </dl>
 <p>  <p>
 Finish installing your server, reboot it, and log in as root.  Finish installing your server, reboot it, and log in as root.
Line 117  Retrieve the loncapa_yum.conf file from Line 105  Retrieve the loncapa_yum.conf file from
 wget http://install.loncapa.org/versions/fedora/loncapa_yum.conf   wget http://install.loncapa.org/versions/fedora/loncapa_yum.conf 
 </pre>  </pre>
 <p>  <p>
   Copy the loncapa_yum.conf file to /etc/yum.conf:
   </p>
   <pre>
   mv /etc/yum.conf /etc/yum.conf.backup
   cp loncapa_yum.conf /etc/yum.conf
   </pre>
   <p>
 Update your system to the latest versions of the system software:  Update your system to the latest versions of the system software:
 </p>  </p>
 <pre>  <pre>
 yum -c ./loncapa_yum.conf update  yum update
 </pre>  </pre>
 <p>  <p>
 You will probably need to reboot your system, specifically when a new kernel is  You will need to reboot your system after yum finishes.  Reboot your system before proceeding with the LON-CAPA install.
 installed.  Reboot your system before proceeding with the LON-CAPA install.  
 </p>  </p>
   
 <h2>Installing LON-CAPA</h2>  <h2>Installing LON-CAPA</h2>
 <h3>Install prerequisites</h3>  <h3>Install prerequisites</h3>
 <p>  <p>
 On our test install we needed to remove the httpd and system-config-httpd   
 packages using the command:   
 </p><pre>  
 rpm -e httpd system-config-httpd  
 </pre>  
 <p>  <p>
 Installating the LON-CAPA prerequisites is pretty straightforward.  Execute:  Installating the LON-CAPA prerequisites is pretty straightforward.  Execute:
 </p><pre>  </p><pre>
 yum -c ./loncapa_yum.conf install LONCAPA-prerequisites  yum install LONCAPA-prerequisites ntp
 </pre><p>  </pre><p>
 This may take a moment due to LON-CAPA's large number of dependencies.  This may take a moment due to LON-CAPA's large number of dependencies.
 </p><p>  
 If yum complains of conflicting packages you will need to uninstall them   
 using 'rpm -e <packagename>'.  
 </p>  </p>
 <h3>Retrieve and execute LON-CAPA setup program</h3>  <h3>Retrieve and execute LON-CAPA setup program</h3>
 <p>  <p>
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