Forum OpenACS Q&A: OpenACS & dotLRN packages uploaded to Debian Unstable

I am really proud to announce that, finally, OpenACS and dotLRN packages have been accepted into Debian Unstable, and are available to download from Debian repository using apt-get:

* http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/openacs.html
* http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/dotlrn.html

Versions packaged are:

* OpenACS 5.5.1
* dotLRN 2.5.0

Most relevant new features on this packages:

* New init system, using the one provided by the aolserver package.
* Basic config settings (IP, address, etc...) are stored now in a shell snippet, on /etc/aolserver4/conf.d/{dotlrn|openacs}.sh
* Enable|disable instance options are now managed in the previously mentioned script.

Debian Unstable users can safely remove the old community repository from /etc/apt/sources.list, and use the official Debian one instead. The updates will be done only on the Debian repository from now on.

Debian Testing users can wait for about a week (hopefully) to see the packages into testing repository.

Debian Stable (Lenny) users should use the old repository for now, until the new Debian Stable version (Squeeze) is released.

I'd like to thank all OCT, and specially to Stefan, for his support, and Frankie from Debian to make all this possible.

Please check the updated wiki page (https://openacs.org/xowiki/debian) for details.

Cheers, Héctor

This is the time for thanking you for your tremendous efforts on behalf of the OpenACS/.LRN community and on behalf of the OCT. Looking back, this important achievement took more than 1,5 years to materialise.

A little, yet important note for those using the Debian derivative Ubuntu: By the mid of February 2010, the openacs and dotlrn packages will have entered the next release of Ubuntu, i.e., Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid Lynx. Even more importantly, this will be a long-time support (LTS) release of Ubuntu.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidReleaseSchedule