How to make mandrake run LON-CAPA

Scott Harrison
October 2001

Files generated on the system during upgrade procedure
(You may wish to delete these to keep your system clean
and well-defined.)
/mnt/DOS_hda1/mandrake70-2.i486.iso
/home/www/*.rpm
/home/www/LON-CAPA-rpms
/home/www/RPMS
/home/www/loncapa
/root/kirs.pl
/root/updatenow.txt
/root/updateproblems.txt

1. cvs co loncapa
2. wget ftp://ftp2.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/mandrake/updates/7.0/RPMS/mod_perl-1.21-21mdk.i586.rpm
3. rpm -Uvh mod_perl-1.21-21mdk.i586.rpm
4. http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource/RedHat/RPMS/LON-CAPA-base-3.1-1.i386.rpm
5. rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps /home/ng/RPMS/LON-CAPA-base-3.1-1.i386.rpm
6. cd loncapa/loncom/build; make rpmstatuspost
7. Look at http://HOSTNAME/lon-status/rpmstatus.html
   Look for the two sections: RPMS from the "bare minimum" set that you
                              are missing 

                              and

                              RPMS from the "development" set that you
                              are missing 

   These are RPMs you should probably update (DO NOT NOT NOT
   ever update LON-CAPA-setup though!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

   Note, I did not remove any RPMs.  I was fairly liberal about
   leaving out various RPMs also.

8. Download original mandrake 7.0 rpm set (probably use ISO here)
   ftp://jungle.metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/
         Mandrake-iso/i586/mandrake70-2.i486.iso
   rpm -Uvh --force samba-*
   rpm -Uvh xntp3-5.93-4mdk.i486.rpm

From install.lon-capa.org/3.1/latestRPMS
rpm -Uvh swig-1.1p5-3.i386.rpm

9. Download update RPMs.
ftp://ftp2.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/mandrake/updates/7.0/RPMS/

Using a modified CVS:loncapa/loncom/build/kirs.pl
78 RPMs currently on the system are updated

unable to upgrade mod_php3

openldap added to system
grpmi added to system
urlview added to system

10. Download LON-CAPA RPMs.
http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/latestRPMS/LON-CAPA-barcode-3.1-1.i386.rpm
http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/latestRPMS/LON-CAPA-krb4-3.1-1.i386.rpm
http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/latestRPMS/LON-CAPA-loncapaconfig-3.1-1.i386.rpm
http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/latestRPMS/LON-CAPA-mysql-3.1-1.i386.rpm
http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/latestRPMS/LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.1-1.i386.rpm

11. Compile CVS repository
cd loncapa/loncom/build
make build

12. Install new CVS files
make install

13. Configure system
access.conf
> PerlSetVar       lonHostID    testl1
> PerlSetVar       lonRole      library
> PerlSetVar       lonAdmEMail  www@localhost
> PerlSetVar       lonDefDomain standalone
> PerlSetVar       lonLoadLim   2.00
> PerlSetVar       lonExpire    86400
> PerlSetVar	 lonReceipt   LKJSDKJjkhsdkopqouidnnn
> PerlSetVar	 lonSqlAccess   123
> PerlSetVar       lonSysEMail  www@localhost
spare.tab
IS EMPTY
hosts.tab
testl1:standalone:library:mccoy.lite.msu.edu:35.8.63.43
  should eventually be
  testl1:standalone:library:localhost:127.0.0.1

14. Enable support for shadow passwords
(CVS:doc/loncapapasswordauthentication.html)

15. Add a domain coordinator (korte)
(CVS:doc/how_to_domain_coordinator.txt)

16. Decided to reinstall apache RPMs using RedHat 6.2
(install.lon-capa.org/3.1/latestRPMS/....
  apache, apache-devel, mod_perl)