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Upgrading from 2.16 to 2.18 under RHEL 8.4 (Oopta)

Upgrading from 2.16 to 2.18 under RHEL 8.4 (Oopta)

by L Ng -
Number of replies: 3

Hello folks.

When 2.16 came out, there were instructions on how to install in on Redhat 8.x

We now want to try and upgrade it version 2.18 on Redhat 8.x (8.4 - oopta to be exact).

However, I don't see any docs on this and they are all on ubuntu.

Is this still doable and would the same docs apply to redhat or am I on my own? Anything to watch out for with regards to having it on redhat instead of ubuntu?

https://webwork.maa.org/wiki/Release_notes_for_WeBWorK_2.18#Upgrade_Instructions

When I tried this:

$> git remote show origin

I got this error: 

fatal: unable to connect to github.com:

github.com[0: 140.82.112.4]: errno=Connection timed out

 $  git remote -v

origin  git://github.com/openwebwork/webwork2.git (fetch)

origin  git://github.com/openwebwork/webwork2.git (push)

Why am I getting this connection timed out error when in the past, I did some upgrades for 2.6 and it was fine.

Thanks

Larry




In reply to L Ng

Re: Upgrading from 2.16 to 2.18 under RHEL 8.4 (Oopta)

by Alex Jordan -

I've installed 2.18 on Oracle, which is an SE Linux variant. I was generally able to follow the Ubuntu installation, but I translated certain things as needed. For example, I opted to use yum to install as many perl modules as I could, and the perl package names have a certain format that is different.

You no longer have to manage the special downgrading of perl that was in the RHEL 2.16 instructions. That was the big deal special thing in those instructions.

In reply to L Ng

Re: Upgrading from 2.16 to 2.18 under RHEL 8.4 (Oopta)

by Glenn Rice -
The issue with "git remote show origin" is that you have a format for your remote url that is no longer supported by GitHub.  That is the "git://" format.  You can fix this by running "git remote set-url origin https://github.com/openwebwork/webwork2.git" in /opt/webwork/webwork2.  You will probably also need to run "git remote set-url origin https://github.com/openwebwork/pg.git" in /opt/webwork/pg.

In reply to Glenn Rice

Re: Upgrading from 2.16 to 2.18 under RHEL 8.4 (Oopta)

by L Ng -

thank you.. I figure that out and was able to get pass this but now have another problem and will be on separate thread ... took me hours to get it to a certain stage