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

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 ...

cvs -d :pserver:mailto:anonymous@cvs.openacs.org:/cvsroot checkout -r oacs-5-2 acs-core
mv openacs-4 dotlrn
cd dotlrn/packages
cvs -d :pserver:mailto: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 https://openacs.org/doc/openacs-5-2/using-cvs-with-openacs.html