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diff --git a/INSTALL.txt b/INSTALL.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 3a7ed3f..0000000 --- a/INSTALL.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,42 +0,0 @@ -INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS - -Before installation: Please note that this is ALPHA quality software at -the moment. DO NOT install this on your production server - or at least -don't blame me if you do and it all goes horribly wrong! - - -REQUIREMENTS - -To install the algebra based question type you will need the following: - -1) Already installed copy of Moodle 2.3 or higher. It was tested with Moodle -2.3 and 2.4. - - -3) If you want to use the SAGE XML-RPC server you will also need XML-RPC - support in PHP5. Most installations include this but the MAMP 1.7.1 - package does not. If you use MAMP you will need to download the MAMP - source code from the MAMP website and recompile PHP making sure you - call the initial configure script with the flag "--with-xmlrpc". - -4) If you want to use the SAGE XML-RPC server you will also need a copy of - SAGE which you can get from here: http://www.sagemath.org/. This should - be installed according to the instructions on their website. - - -INSTALLING - -1) Copy the contents of the "algebra" directory into the question/type - subdirectory of your moodle directory. - -2) Go to Site Administration > Notifications and follow the usual procedure - to upgrade a Moodle plugin. You are now ready to write algebra based questions - which use the 'Evaluate' and 'Equivalent' comparison methods. - -3) To run the SAGE XML-RPC server you will need an installed copy of SAGE - (http://www.sagemath.org/). Edit the first line of the 'sage-server.py' - file to point to your installed copy of the sage executable. Then simply - execute the sage-server.py script. It will run a very simple XML-RPC - server. If the machine you run your moodle server on is different from - the machine running your SAGE webserver you will need to enter the full - url |