<div>Hi Friends,</div>
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<div>I'm migrating an old clunky Access DB of bibliographic records to something more platform and software-independent, a web-based open-source solution. I started with Greenstone, which seems ok for static data, but it's really a chore to get new records in the system (especially for non-techies, which most of my sisters -- I'm a nun working on a convent library -- definitely aren't). I've heard that Koha is better, but I can*not* get the darn thing to install.</div>
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<div>I'm trying to install on a vista system. I installed Apache HTTP Server 2.0.63, MySQL Server 4.1 and Active Perl 5.10.1 build 1006 with the configurations suggested by the Koha wiki KohaWinInstallation. But I'm a total newbie with all three of these pre-requisite programs so I've no real way to see if I installed them well. I DID make sure to change the Perl path name to usr.</div>
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<div>When I try to install Koha 2.2.9 (or 2.2.8), by double-clicking install.pl, I get a quick flash of a console, too fast to read, and then nothing. Nada. A very patient use of hitting PrtSc finally got me a screenshot of what my error message is: c:\usr\bin\perl.exe is the window name, and it reports: "Use of uninitialized value $env{"home"} in concatenation (.) or string at Install line 122. Um, okay. Not sure what that means for me.</div>
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<div>Any tips out there for someone starting from scratch? Much obliged.</div>
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<div>Sr. Joy Payton, aci</div>