installation process in centos

[johnfelipe]

tnks

[dirkcuys]

Hey @johnfelipe - are you asking if it is possible to install the Mechanical MOOC on CentOS?

[johnfelipe]

Yes and step by step for have a vmware appliance

[dirkcuys]

@johnfelipe unfortunately I'm not familiar with CentOS. The mechanical MOOC is essentially a Django application that uses PostgreSQL for a database. There should be documentation for setting up django and postgresql on the web. Do you have a specific requirement to host on CentOS?

Wrt vmware appliances I would recommend starting with a Ubuntu 12.04 Django appliance (https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/category_groups/19) and then setting up the Mechanical MOOC to run on it.

[johnfelipe]

Or ubuntu, please let me know how install in ubuntu, i want create a vmware appliance with all, and possible share with p2p community, you can help me with that

[johnfelipe]

i want create something like ka-lite https://github.com/learningequality/ka-lite, for all educational community with problems with conectivity....

[dirkcuys]

That sounds interesting! To use the Mechanical MOOC as is, people require at least access to email. This implies having occasional access to the internet. While it will be possible to set it up to run on a local server, I don't know if this is what you want?

The Mechanical MOOC is one of the tools that we use for online learning and there may be other tools that are better suited to your problem. If you want to talk about your idea and requirements our forum is a better place.

But feel free to experiment. For setting up the Mechanical MOOC on Ubuntu I recommend this guide. Instead of using a Digital Ocean server, install Ubuntu 12.04 on a VMWare guest. And instead of starting a new Django project at "Step 8", clone the mechanical mooc and use that instead.

[johnfelipe]

work in ubuntu 13.10?

[dirkcuys]

I recommend sticking to Ubuntu 12.04 since it will be maintained for a longer time than Ubuntu 13.10.