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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I work in a small, Mac-based school district. Three of
our elementary school libraries still use old cards and stamps to check out
books, because they do not have an ILS. We have been experimenting with
Koha 2 for a few weeks, but wanted Z39.50 search features, so decided to test Koha
3. The only available Mac was a 500 mhz, 12 inch iBook, so that is where
I installed Koha 3. It took a number of hours to get all the Perl
modules, mySQL, and Apache set up, but I am happy to say it now works. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>You can take a look at the screenshot here: <a
href="http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/5510/ibookkohaxv9.png">http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/5510/ibookkohaxv9.png</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>If anyone else tries to install Koha on a Mac, the only possible
confusing part is getting past Part 3 of the Web Installer. In “/etc/usr/share/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/installer”
I had to edit install.pl line 604 to “my $strcmd = “/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql”
” from “my strcmd = “mysql”” <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Otherwise, step 3 of the installer would not work, because
Koha could not find mySQL.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Koha 3 on this Mac is slow as molasses, but I am amazed that
it works. In a few weeks I’ll put Koha 3 beta on a dual core 2 ghz Intel
XServe to really test it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>-Alex Shorthouse<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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