Alain Raap

Hi Howard, thanks for the tip, we're not using Docker. But the problem is solved, so we can continue with the research for the next Moodle LTS (4.5) version

It's possible now to install Moodle on RHEL8 an RHEL9 with the MariaDB 10.11 database version. I could also upgrade Moodle 4.1.x to Moodle 4.5 dev (in combination with PHP 8.2 on RHEL9).

I found the cause of this problem, it wasn't possible anymore to install epel packages in Redhat 9 in my development environment. I could override this with a setting in Ansible and after this change I could install the libsodium library again.

I am trying to install Moodle 4.5 (dev) on Redhat 9, but libsodium isn't available in that release, so the installation stops. PHP version is 8.2. I can't install the library as it's not possible to download the remi repositories from internet in our environment.

 

After searching on the Redhat website, I found this article:
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5284161

This is a problem for Moodle users on Redhat that want to migrate to Redhat 9 in the near future.

I think it’s always good to have a look how the current Moodle 4.1.x environment deals with a major upgrade like this new LTS version. Just curiosity too, but we don’t want to get surprised by conversion/performance bugs or plugins that break the upgrade. I already saw a scorm warning during the upgrade that warned for a long migration time.
I also saw that PHP 8.2 was advised for the new Moodle 4.5 LTS. But before you’ll have to migrate with PHP 8.1 (or older) to Moodle 4.5? What’s a good strategy?
We had a problem with Redhat and the MariaDB version that wasn’t suitable for Moodle 4.5. With the latest rhel repo updates we can upgrade MariaDB to version 10.11.