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Michael Gage - beta testing the new moodle -- webwork bridge

Michael Gage - beta testing the new moodle -- webwork bridge

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inactiveTopicbeta testing the new moodle -- webwork bridge topic started 7/5/2006; 1:05:00 PM
last post 7/7/2006; 4:41:15 PM
userMichael Gage - beta testing the new moodle -- webwork bridge  blueArrow
7/5/2006; 1:05:00 PM (reads: 416, responses: 5)
Those interested in beta testing the new moodle (1.6) -- webwork (2.2.2) bridge should send me an email (gage@math.rochester.edu) and I'll help you get it set up. moodle and webwork MUST be using mysql on the same machine.

The bridge allows webwork assignments to appear within moodle without additional authentication and allows moodle to obtain grades from webwork.

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userMarc BUFFAT - Re: beta testing the new moodle -- webwork bridge  blueArrow
7/7/2006; 3:21:18 AM (reads: 473, responses: 0)
Hi Michael,

I have installed your new wwassignement module with the new moodle 1.6 and it works (as before with moodle 1.5) on a dual AMD64 linux box running Ubuntu 6.01 One point is that you have to put the langage file lang.php in the right moodle directory: lang/en_utf8/wwassignment.php

Thanks,

Marc

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userMark Hamrick - Re: beta testing the new moodle -- webwork bridge  blueArrow
7/7/2006; 10:03:14 AM (reads: 472, responses: 0)
Marc,

Are you running a x86_64 install of Ubuntu on that box, or the i386 install?

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userMarc BUFFAT - Re: beta testing the new moodle -- webwork bridge  blueArrow
7/7/2006; 1:22:31 PM (reads: 440, responses: 0)
Mark, I am running a x86_64 install of Ubuntu on a SUN bi dualcore opteron box (sunfire X4200).

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userMark Hamrick - Re: beta testing the new moodle -- webwork bridge  blueArrow
7/7/2006; 4:09:15 PM (reads: 452, responses: 1)
Was the install close to the Debian install? I have a working install of WWMOODLE on RHEL 3.0 x86_64, but meeting the dependencies for Webwork was not easy.

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userMichael Gage - Re: beta testing the new moodle -- webwork bridge  blueArrow
7/7/2006; 4:41:15 PM (reads: 504, responses: 0)
A new message was posted:

Address: http://webhost.math.rochester.edu/webworkdocs/discuss/msgReader$4212 

By: Mark Hamrick (mmhamric@uncc.edu)



Just in case anyone is interested, here are some notes that I have
taken on getting WW to install on RHEL4 an Fedora. I may update this
more later, but I don't recommend using RHEL or Fedora because we
have had some versioning issues with certain packages. This text is
based off of the work that Sam and Mike did on the Twiki Install
guide, I have just listed the different package names.




Perl
WeBWorK requires Perl 5.6 or greater.
Package names: Debian: perl
RHEL4, Fedora: Part of default install, perl



Apache
WeBWorK requires Apache 1.3. Efforts are underway to make it
compatible with Apache 2. WeBWorK requires that the mod_alias module
be available. Most vendors compile their Apache packages with the
necessary features enabled.
Package names: Debian: apache
RHEL4, Fedora: Compile from source.



mod_perl
WeBWorK is a mod_perl application and requires mod_perl 1.x. If
compiling mod_perl from source, use the EVERYTHING=1 flag to enable
all mod_perl features. Most vendors compile their mod_perl packages
with this setting enabled.
Package names: Debian: libapache-mod-perl
RHEL4, Fedora: Compile from source. I had to use the flags below to
get the compile to work correctly.
perl Makefile.PL EVERYTHING=1 DO_HTTPD=1 USE_APACI=1 APACHE_PREFIX=/usr/local/apache



MySQL
In WeBWorK 2.2, only MySQL database are supported.
The deprecated GDBM database has been removed in this version.
WeBWorK 2.2 is primarily tested with MySQL 4.0. It also
reported to work with MySQL 4.1 as well as recent versions
of MySQL 3.
Package names: Debian, Fedora, RHEL: mysql-server, mysql-client



LaTeX
WeBWorK requires LaTeX for generating hardcopy output and
displaying mathematics graphically. Any standard LaTeX
distribution that provides the commands latex and pdflatex
should work. We use TeTeX.
Package names: Debian: tetex-bin, tetex-extra
RHEL4, Fedora: tetex, tetex-latex



Netpbm
WeBWorK requires Netpbm to convert images among the
GIF, PNG, and EPS formats.
Package names: Debian: netpbm
RHEL4, Fedora: Compile from source.



dvipng
WeBWorK uses dvipng to display mathematics graphically.
It is only required if you wish to use the images display
mode. WeBWorK is initially configured to work with dvipng
1.0 or greater, but can be reconfigured to work with
dvipng 0.8 or 0.9. dvipng requires the preview.sty file
from the preview-latex package.
Package names: Debian: dvipng, preview-latex-style
Fedora: preview-latex-common-0.9.1-1.fedora.noarch.rpm



TtH
WeBWorK uses TtH to display mathematics as formatted HTML.
It is only required if you wish to use the formatted-text
display mode.
Package names: Debian: tth
RHEL4, Fedora: Compile from source.



All Perl Modules were pulled from CPAN.

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