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 <h1>Installing LON-CAPA on a Fedora Linux System</h1>  <h1>Installing LON-CAPA on a 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 Linux.  The computer will be configured solely as  server running Fedora Core 2 (FC2).  The computer will be configured solely as
 a LON-CAPA server and will be expected to have no other services running  a LON-CAPA server and will be expected to have no other services running
 on it.  on it.
 </p><p>  </p><p>
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          <li>Editors</li>           <li>Editors</li>
          <li>Text Based Internet</li>           <li>Text Based Internet</li>
          <li>Authoring and Publishing</li>           <li>Authoring and Publishing</li>
            <li>Server Configuration Tools</li>
          <li>Development Tools</li>           <li>Development Tools</li>
          <li>Administration Tools</li>           <li>Administration Tools</li>
          <li>Printing Support</li>           <li>Printing Support</li>
          <li>Server Configuration Tools</li>  
       </ul>        </ul>
    </dd>     </dd>
 </dl>  </dl>
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 This section walks you through installing the packages which LON-CAPA requires.  This section walks you through installing the packages which LON-CAPA requires.
 There are a lot of dependencies.  They have been grouped in a  There are a lot of dependencies.  They have been grouped in a
 somewhat logical fashion to make them easier to deal with.  When installing  somewhat logical fashion to make them easier to deal with.  When installing
 the rpms you should watch for errors.  the rpms you should watch for errors.  Errors generated by RPMs which are 
   already should not be considered a problem, although you will have to ensure 
   the other rpms in the directory get installed.
   </p><p>
   First, we need to make sure the web server and mod_perl have not been 
   installed.  Use the following commands to remove them if they exist:
   </p><p>
   <pre>
   rpm -e `rpm -q -a | grep httpd`
   rpm -e `rpm -q -a | grep mod_perl`
   </pre>
   </p><p>
   If the above commands returns no output (the usual indicator of success), or an
   error message 'rpm: no packages given for erase' (meaning there were no
   packages that contain httpd or mod_perl), you are good to go.  
 </p><p>  </p><p>
 The quick instructions are:  To install the many LON-CAPA dependencies, execute the following commands:
 </p>  </p>
 <pre>  <pre>
 cd installation  cd installation
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         Administering LON-CAPA machines does not yet mean becoming a           Administering LON-CAPA machines does not yet mean becoming a 
         database administrator.</li>          database administrator.</li>
     <li>Apache 1.3 and mod_perl 1.x are required by LON-CAPA.  These are      <li>Apache 1.3 and mod_perl 1.x are required by LON-CAPA.  These are
         provided in the installation package.          provided in the installation package.  The mod_perl package has been
           repackaged from the Redhat sources with the name 'mod_perl_1' in
           order to prevent version 1.99 of mod_perl from being installed by 
           yum or other package managers.</li>
     <li>A specific version of Gnuplot is required by LON-CAPA.  Do not      <li>A specific version of Gnuplot is required by LON-CAPA.  Do not
         install a version different from the one included in the LON-CAPA          install a version different from the one included in the LON-CAPA
         installation package.</li>          installation package.  We're still working on using gnuplot 4.0 which
           recently came out.</li>
 </ul>  </ul>
 </p>  </p>
   
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 To configure and install LON-CAPA, execute the following commands:  To configure and install LON-CAPA, execute the following commands:
 </p>  </p>
 <pre>  <pre>
 cd /root/loncapa-N.N     (N.N should correspond to a version number like '1.1')  cd /root/loncapa-N.N     (N.N should correspond to a version number like '1.2')
 ./UPDATE  ./UPDATE
 </pre>  </pre>
 <p>  <p>
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 /etc/init.d/loncontrol start  /etc/init.d/loncontrol start
 /etc/init.d/httpd start  /etc/init.d/httpd start
 </pre>  </pre>
   <p>
   If you receive warnings when starting the httpd about missing perl modules,
   please make sure you followed the instructions in 
   <b>Installing LON-CAPA Dependencies</b>.  If you still have errors, please
   contact the LON-CAPA development team.
   </p>
 <h2>Log in to your LON-CAPA Machine</h2>  <h2>Log in to your LON-CAPA Machine</h2>
 <p>  <p>
 Point a web browser at your new machine and log in as the domain  Point a web browser at your new machine and log in as the domain
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