Prerequisites

Operating system

The AMC utilities have been written for Linux. They might be adapted to MAC OS X or Windows without too many difficulties, but I won do that in the near future. Please contact me if you are interested to do it : I can help you a little, and I will include changes in AMC if necessary.

Software

[Note]Note

If you install AMC with deb or RPM package (on debian, Ubuntu and derivatives, Mandriva, openSUSE, Fedora), every software used by AMC will be automatically installed.

The main packages/software that are required for the use of AMC are the following:

  • LaTeX

  • ImageMagick

  • Perl, together with Gtk2-Perl and Glade::XML for the graphical user interface

Recommended versions for software used by AMC

A few bugs in old versions of software used by AMC are particularly detrimental to its operating normally:

  • With old versions of Net::CUPS (debian package libnet-cups-perl), the command for printing the test sheets leads to a premature exit from the AMC graphical user interface. This bug is fixed in versions 0.61 and later of Net::CUPS.

  • With old versions of ImageMagick, the merging of corrected answer sheets into a single PDF file per student does not work when answer sheets comprise more than one page. This bug is fixed in versions 6.5.5 ad later of ImageMagick.

LaTeX

Some knowledge of LaTeX is useful for the design of MCQs. However, the templates that are provided should allow those who are not deterred by LaTeX/XML/HTML formats to quickly start writing their own MCQs.