Forum LAMS for Tech-Heads - General Forum: Re: Re: Re: 2.4 Debian/Ubuntu installers/upgraders out

By: Daniel Schneider

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Hi, some problem is still there I think:

Sorry, the machine speaks french, but basically there is still some old jboss thing hanging in the debian script.

Also, I got 2.4 installed (files data aug 15 2012), and I don't know actually if your official distribution right now (March 2014) includes some packages of interest (bug fixes + language strings).

How could I know the exact subversion of LAMS ?

Btw Any ETA for LAMS 2.4.1 or 2.5 yet ?

- greetings - Daniel


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sudo apt-get install lams2 --force-yes --only-upgrade

Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
Construction de l'arbre des dépendances
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Les paquets suivants seront mis à jour :
lams2
1 mis à jour, 0 nouvellement installés, 0 à enlever et 133 non mis à jour.
Il est nécessaire de prendre 60.0 Mo dans les archives.
Après cette opération, 32.8 ko d'espace disque supplémentaires seront utilisés.
ATTENTION : les paquets suivants n'ont pas été authentifiés.
lams2
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Réception de : 1 http://downloads.lamsinternational.com/debian/ web/ lams2 2.4.0-1 [60.0 MB]
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Préparation du remplacement de lams2 2.4.0-1 (en utilisant .../archives/lams2_2.4.0-1_all.deb) ...
* Stopping LAMS 2 Server lams2 [ OK ]
cp: impossible d'évaluer «/usr/share/jboss-4.0.2/server/default/deploy/lams.ear/lams-www.war/news.html»: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
dpkg : erreur de traitement de /var/cache/apt/archives/lams2_2.4.0-1_all.deb (--unpack) :
le sous-processus nouveau script pre-installation a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1
* Starting LAMS 2 Server lams2 [ OK ]
Des erreurs ont été rencontrées pendant l'exécution :
/var/cache/apt/archives/lams2_2.4.0-1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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Posted by Daniel Schneider

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Hi Daniel,

My apologies for the late reply.

2.4.1 will now be known as 2.5 as we are packing ground changing features within it.

We've been having a lot of activity lately in the development side.

Recently a cross-site scripting issues was brought up and that required to change a lot of code within LAMS to protect from these kind of attacks.

This has throw thing a bit off the original plan which was to release LAMS 2.5 within a month.

Also, I'm yet to put the final release notes for 2.5 but there a quite a lot of new cool features

* New Flashless monitor UI.
* Improved Flashless learner UI (it looks just like the old Flash one, but no Flash).
* New redesigned index page.
* Support for mobile devices in quite a few LAMS activities (unfortunately not all yet).
* Pretty much all tools monitoring interface have been improved.
* Two new activities: Scratchie and Leader tools (more on these shortly).
* Ability to move students backwards in a lesson (get them to redo activities).
* and hundreds more...

Once we are getting closer to the final version, building the installers would be pretty straight forward as they won't have major "under-the-hood" upgrades as with 2.4, but rather feature improvements this time.

We are currently working on Flashless Authoring and it looks quite nice, but I don't think this feature will cut it for 2.5 though.

Thanks,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Hi Daniel,

I realized that I didn't answer your question though

> How could I know the exact subversion of LAMS ?

Check out in the sysadmin menu, in the "Edit config settings", there's a whole bunch of versions (UIs mainly).

The format should be 2.4.0.{date}


More accurately than this would be to check out the patches table in the db:

select * from patches;

Thanks

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

By: Daniel Schneider

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Thanx :)

Now for those lazy guys who didn't apply the big official 2.4 patches for a while (all were published in spring 2013), read

http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/lams/Patches

If you have a standard Ubuntu install, copy/paste if you are not afraid:

http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/LAMS_installation_and_configuration#Small_LAMS_patches

... it's worth the trouble.

Posted by Daniel Schneider

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Thanks Daniel!

Really appreciate that you share these links. Very useful!


Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione