With WeBWorK 2.15 under Ubuntu 20.04 (running in a Parallels Desktop for Mac virtual machine under macOS 12.4), today I am unable to accomplish the usual hotfix/update procedure:
$ cd /opt/webwork/webwork2/
$ git remote show origin
fatal: unable to connect to github.com
github.com[0: 140.82.112.4]: errno-Connection refused
$ cd /opt/webwork/libraries/webwork-open-problem-library
$ show origin
[same error as before]
What's wrong?
Hi,
Github no longer allows non secure access. Do the following
wwadmin@wwserver:~$ cd /opt/webwork/webwork2/
wwadmin@wwserver:/opt/webwork/webwork2$ git remote -v
and you will probably see something like:
origin git://github.com/openwebwork/webwork2.git (fetch)
origin git://github.com/openwebwork/webwork2.git (push)
which is no longer allowed. Change this as follows
wwadmin@wwserver:/opt/webwork/webwork2$ git remote set-url origin https://github.com/openwebwork/webwork2.git
and rerun the command
wwadmin@wwserver:/opt/webwork/webwork2$ git remote -v
and you should see an address with https
origin https://github.com/openwebwork/webwork2.git (fetch)
origin https://github.com/openwebwork/webwork2.git (push)
Then you can follow the update instructions for the webwork2 repository. Do the analogous thing for the pg and webwork-open-problem-library repositories.
Arnie
Then I should follow WHICH update instructions? (So many sets of instructions there!).
Do I still execute the following?
git remote show origin
And then, if output shows current installed version is outdated, execute the following?
git pull origin
If not, please direct me to just which section of which document is relevant. I find locating the appropriate docs somewhat Byzantine with WeBWork!
As is stated in the instructions, if you check the version, you will see the current version of WeBWorK is 2.16 (soon to be 2.17). If you update using git, you will get 2.16 which has some different requirements than your current version which is 2.15. For details see https://webwork.maa.org/wiki/Release_notes_for_WeBWorK_2.16
For different ways of updating, look at the "Methodology" section in https://webwork.maa.org/wiki/Converting_the_webwork_database_from_the_latin1_to_the_utf8mb4_character_set
You do not have to worry converting the database but the "Methodology" section covers your situation.
Maybe others who have more real world experience than I in updating running systems will give you information on how they do it.
I'm still confused: I'm tnot upgrading from 2.15 to 2.16. I'm just trying to do hotfixes (if there are any) and update the problem library.
Where and what are the instructions to do that for that?