How To Install wims-lti on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wims-lti on Ubuntu.

What is `wims-lti`

wims-lti is:

WIMS-LTI is a gateway server that links LMSs to WIMS servers, using LTI.

Glossary:

Wims is an interactive web service featuring rich dynamic exercices for students, and a framework to manage inline courses, virtual classes for teachers. Wims is a LMS, currently packaged in Debian.
the acronym LMS stands for Learning Management System. Popular Learning Management systems are Moodle, Chamilo, Claroline, etc. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_management_system
LTI is an acronym for Learning Tools Interoperability: it is an open standard allowing one to define quickly communication channels between LMS(a) and LMS(b), for example to allow one to manage a virtual class with his students in LMS(a), and cherry pick exercises provided by LMS(b) seemlessly. ==========

A single instance of WIMS-LTI can handle a lot of LMS and WIMS servers.

WIMS-LTI allows :

To create a WIMS class associated to a LMS’ course.
To create students corresponding to that course in the WIMS class.
Students to connect to the WIMS server from a LMS.
Teachers to connect to the WIMS class as supervisor or as student from a LMS.
To send the grades of students back to the LMS (automatically and manually).

The documentation is available on readthedocs: https://wims-lti.readthedocs.io/.

There are three methods to install wims-lti on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install wims-lti Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install wims-lti using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install wims-lti

Install wims-lti Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install wims-lti using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install wims-lti

Install wims-lti Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install wims-lti using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install wims-lti

How To Uninstall wims-lti on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the wims-lti package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove wims-lti

Uninstall wims-lti And Its Dependencies

To uninstall wims-lti and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wims-lti

Remove wims-lti Configurations and Data

To remove wims-lti configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge wims-lti

Remove wims-lti configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove wims-lti configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wims-lti

Dependencies

wims-lti have the following dependencies:

References

wims-lti website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wims-lti package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.