Forum .LRN Q&A: Re: dotLRN gradebook

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9: Re: dotLRN gradebook (response to 1)
Posted by Al Guyer on 01/31/06 06:54 PM
oops... my bad. :)

I was hesitant to use the cvs. That was the first cvs checkout that worked from openacs.org. Anyway, all my lame excuses aside, it checked out successfully...

But... apparently I do not know how to install it correctly. You mentioned that the apm has a bug... So, is there another way to install packages? I tried just copying the check'd out directories to my local openacs website:
/var/www/oacs-test/packages/

The package manager said then that evaluation was installed but still bombed when I tried to mount it.

I tried to use the loader:
http://localhost/acs-admin/apm/package-load

but, no matter where I pointed it, it claimed that there were no valid apm files:

Accessing /var/www/oacs-test/my_cvs_repository/eval/evaluation...

The directory specified, /var/www/oacs-test/my_cvs_repository/eval/evaluation, does not contain any APM files. Please try again

please point me to a faq, or man page, or a how-to, or something...

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10: Re: Re: dotLRN gradebook (response to 9)
Posted by Jose Pablo Escobedo Del Cid on 02/01/06 11:40 AM
no worries, try this:

1. about the evaluation package problem, I guess what happened is that it got partially installed, so I think it's better to unistall it (unmount and uninstall and making sure it doesn't get listed in the mounted packages list) and then install it again using the http://localhost/acs-admin/install/ and choosing the install from local option (choose the evaluation applet from the services list). The problem here is that unistalling can be difficult if it doesn't work from the acs-admin/apm/ page, because you would have to do it manually... you can see the evaluation/tcl/*callback procs and the evauation-create and drop scripts to see what you need to delete

2. about the apm (package manager) problem, I'm sorry I can only tell you that the person in charge (according to https://openacs.org/projects/openacs/packages/) is Jeff Davis, and that you can post a bug in the bugtracker page (http://www.openacs.org/bugtracker/openacs/). There is also a documentation of the package manager here: http://www.openacs.org/doc/openacs-5-2/apm-requirements.html. Finally, you can allways try the IRC #openacs channel as well as posting in the developer's forum

that's all, I hope it helps