enCore v5 Installation

Important:
The enCore MOO Database version > 5.x can only be installed on top of enCore MOO version 4.0.1.
If applicable you must upgrade any enCore MOO 3.x or lower to version 4.0.1 before proceeding.

Download and apply the needed patches from enCore Learning Environment's SourceForge.net project page.

Upgrade existing enCore installation

Required steps

Backup your current database.
Download our compressed archive of the new patch, icons, smiles and Java applett from
the enCore Learning Environment's SourceForge.net project page .
Unpack archive and move files to the encore folder of your web server (where the encore icons, etc. are currently located).
Refresh your memory on unpacking & moving if needed.
Read the instructions in enCore-5.0b.patch and apply the patch by pasting in small portions of the patch at a time.

Optional, but recommended steps

Apply the Unicode patch to your LambdaMOO server in order to add support for non-Latin-1 characters like æ, ø, å, etc.
If you do not wish to do so, see warning on next step.
Convert your enCore.db file to Unicode if it contains non-ASCII characters.

On most *NIX system this can be done through the recode or iconv utility and the commands:

recode iso-8859-1..utf8 enCore.db
which will recode the database file enCore.db from iso-8859-1 to utf-8.

or

iconv -f iso-8859 -t utf-8 -o enCoreUTF8.db enCore.db
which will convert the enCore.db file from iso-8859-1 to utf-8 and store the result in a new file named enCoreUTF8.db.

Warning:
If you do not do this, you will have to manually set $httpd.charset to iso-8859-1 as utf-8 is now the default charset of enCore.
Failing to do so may result in a corrupt database.
Install the File Upload extension.
Install the TinyMCE WYSIWYG Editor extension.