Forum OpenACS Q&A: Install .LRN on top of OpenACS?

Posted by Christof Spitz on 01/09/06 01:39 AM

Hi, I wanted to try OpenACS as the main CMS tool for a website. As a special application for some groups of student I want to install .LRN. I am not clear wether I should

* install OpenACS first and then install the .LRN as a package (in that case is documentation given in the OpenACS .LRN package on how to install it still valid?)
* install .LRN and add some more packages from OpenACS

I tried it the first way (OpenACS 5.1.5), but there were errors e.g. when creating "Departments" in .LRN.

TIA, Christof

2: Re: Install .LRN on top of OpenACS? (response to 1)

Posted by Christof Spitz on 01/10/06 09:54 AM

Ok, I try to post this again formatted:

I wanted to try OpenACS as the main CMS tool for a website. As a special application for some groups of students I want to install .LRN.

I am not clear wether I should

* install OpenACS first and then install the .LRN as a package (in that case is documentation given in the OpenACS .LRN package on how to install it still valid?)

* install .LRN and add some more packages from OpenACS

I tried it both ways, but neither really worked 'out of the box'.

OpenACS / .LRN are powerful tools, but it seems for newbie or someone who didn't go deeply into it for a couple of months or years it's very frustrating, since nearly nothing, even the very basic functions of the packages, works smoothly

It's difficult to convince people to use OpenACS if you can't even present them a simple installation that works flawlessly.

Ok, this was way off topic ...

3: Re: Install .LRN on top of OpenACS? (response to 1)

Posted by David Ghost on 01/19/06 01:44 PM

I'm curious about this too.
Please give an answer!

4: Re: Install .LRN on top of OpenACS? (response to 1)

Posted by Rainer Hahnekamp on 01/20/06 12:29 AM

Hi, I would recommend to install it via CVS. Just do

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.openacs.org:/cvsroot checkout -r oacs-5-2 acs-core

mv openacs-4 dotlrn

cd dotlrn/packages

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.openacs.org:/cvsroot checkout -r oacs-5-2 dotlrn-all

mv dotlrn/install.xml ..

After that edit the config file and start the AOLServer. OpenACS and .Lrn are installed perfectly.

More information on http://openacs.org/doc/openacs-5-2/using-cvs-with-openacs.html

5: Re: Re: Install .LRN on top of OpenACS? (response to 4)

Posted by Rocael Hernández Rizzardini on 01/20/06 02:32 AM

or just follow the steps manually in the install.xml