September 2001 - Koha - lists.katipo.co.nz

KOHA questions
by Brad 27 Sep '01

27 Sep '01

Hello all, I have a few questions I thought I'd throw out there. I am the system administrator for a very large public library system that is not happy with its current material management system. We have been quietly looking around for alternatives, getting some preliminary information. Many of the technical people here are open-source advocates, which led us to take a look at KOHA. On the KOHA website, it says that the software is for small to medium-sized libraries. What would you say is the upper limit in this in terms of number of branches and records? Is this limit simply a result of the user interface or of the underlying structure? What if I threw out the ballpark figure of around 300 branch libraries and around 15 million records? I always had the impression that MySQL was very scalable. A few people here are concerned about the concurrency issues that are present in MySQL. The last thing we want is records being edited by two (or more) users at one time and getting strange results. Has MySQL made advances in this realm lately? Do any of you have experience with this? Otherwise, we really like the simple layout of the whole system. Clearly, before we could even start to think about implementing KOHA, we would have to commit large amounts of resources to developing it more. As good as it is right now, there is some functionality that we absolutely need (such as Z39.50 support, very in-depth transaction reports, inter-library loans reports, etc, etc, etc...). This idea of getting into real and dirty software development excites some of our people, while it frightens others. Thanks to everyone in advance for reading this and I look forward to the responses. Kind regards, Brad

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Debian package
by Tonnesen Steve 26 Sep '01

26 Sep '01

Is there anybody out there running Debian who is interested in testing my packaged install? And could anybody running RedHat or some other distribution tell me where apache's httpd.conf file is stored in your distribution? Beware that this is early testing. This is not ready for a production system yet. Steve.

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APT repository for Koha package
by Tonnesen Steve 26 Sep '01

26 Sep '01

I've set up an apt repository for my koha package at: deb http://mail.cmsd.bc.ca/debian local main apt-get update apt-get install koha You've just gotta like Debian. :) Steve.

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Debian Package
by Tonnesen Steve 25 Sep '01

25 Sep '01

Been quiet lately. On the list anyway. I've now got 8 libraries using Koha. It's definitely time for me to start developing that Debian package that I talked about. I've now learned how to use DebConf for the configuration questions. The unfortunate side effect of this will be to make it _more_ difficult to build the rpm packages that everyone will doubtless clamor for, but it shouldn't be too hard to work around when it comes to that. Just won't be as pretty as with Debian. :) I'm now at the point of needing a "starting point" database population. I remember from my first efforts at installing Koha that the database dump that came with the tarball was missing a few things, like accounts info, branches, etc. that left Koha unusable. I guess I'll just have to ask these questions during the installation process. Alternatively, I could just have a "dummy" branch installed by default. If the user actually has multiple branches, they will use the new web-based branch editor that will be added to Koha at some point. :) Another tricky part is going to be configuring Apache. For Debian, the config files shouldn't be difficult to find, they'll be either /etc/apache/* or /etc/apache-ssl/*. Don't know about RedHat. Will deal with that when the Debian package is done, I guess. I don't really want the Koha install script to start messing around with configuring network interfaces, so it will most likely require that the user set up two aliases for Koha, including DNS lookups, and then enter these values into the configuration questions. I can then modify the apache config files appropriately and reload apache. This message is just intended to announce my intentions, and to let the list members know that I'm still around. :) Steve Tonnesen tonnesen(a)cmsd.bc.ca Coast Mountains School District Hazelton, BC, CANADA

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Install Koha using Oracle database
by Gerrit Niestijl 24 Sep '01

24 Sep '01

Hi, To see if Koha suits our needs, I am trying to install it on top of an Oracle database. So far I converted the database script and created the database and istalled Koha. Unfortunately some column names are not beeing accepted by Oracle (reserved words). These are: biblioitems->number biblioitems->size deletedbiblioitems->number deletedbiblioitems->size newitems->number users->level I have changed the names by applying the prefix c_ to them. Where in the sources do I have to change the references to these columns? Koha seems to work (at least talk to the database), allthough errors occur. If I succeed I will post the changes to the list. -- Regards, Gerrit Niestijl Revalidatiecentrum Rijndam Adriaanstichting Westersingel 300, 3015 LJ Rotterdam Postbus 23181, 3001 KD Rotterdam Tel (010) 2412439 Fax (010) 2412400

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file not avialble
by Sharad K. Sonkar 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

hi rachel i have downloded koha-1.1.1 version. There are some files which are not present in that module. How can i get these files. please advice. The files list is given below. advance report.html modify-item.html add-biblio.html stock.html add.items.html total return-today.html numbers-issues-4.gif ******************************************** * Sharad Kumar Sonker * * Trainee * * National Centere For Science Information * * Indian Institute Of Science * * Bangalore 560012 * * phone (080)3600271,3092511 * * Email sharad(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in * * sksonker(a)yahoo.co.in * * sharad_sonker(a)rediffmail.com * ********************************************

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by RAnderson＠mail.sd91.bc.ca 07 Sep '01

07 Sep '01

Please remove my name from your listserve.

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Polish Images for use with Koha
by Chris Cormack 05 Sep '01

05 Sep '01

Hi All Pawel has made available some polish images for use with Koha. I have made an images file section on sourceforge and put them there to download. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=16466 Hopefully we can build up a collection of images for lots of different languages :-) Thanks again to Pawel for the images and his neat translation.pl script. CHris -- Chris Cormack Programmer 025 500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris(a)katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz

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