April 2008 - Koha - lists.katipo.co.nz

Migrate all Koha data from old server to new server
by Greg Vickers 23 Sep '15

23 Sep '15

Hi all, We ae running Koha on a dodgy spare desktop that we scrounged up, now we have a nice shiny Dell server to run it on. What is the easiest method of transferring the data from the old server to the new server? (Using Koha 2.2.4 on both servers.) I'm guessing that all I have to do is install Koha on the new server (meet prerequisites etc) and move across the MySQL data to the new server. Am I missing something critical? Thanks, Greg

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Re: [Koha] Help with installation on fedora 8
by BWS Johnson 26 Jan '14

26 Jan '14

Salvete! >> I was hoping to solve my library problem with an existing application. >> It is not a full professional library application that is required here, >> but from the experience I have had with working installations I give my >> congratulations to developers for a good application. If I was running a >> professional full scale library with a dedicated server, then Koha would >> be a good choice. >> >> However I have spent a total of well over 300 hours trying to get an >> installation that I am happy with. In hindsight I would have been well >> towards an application that would have served my needs if I had put that >> time into my own application rather than getting involved in Koha. >Well, IMO that's not a particularly helpful attitude; there are a lot >of hard-working >folks in this community, and we don't happen to know much about your favorite >flavor of LInux. For what it's worth, I just discovered the following >French document >for how to install Koha on Fedora: He didn't say otherwise, Josh. He *complimented* the developers, which I tend to think is a great attitude. :) Installation issues - particularly with this problem - are not an unusual complaint in the least - it's a pain to install, plain and simple. The dependencies ought to be bundled together to make this a one, two, three process. If it's the case that LibLime doesn't want to make for an easy installation for financial interests, that's fine. But Fedora is not a strange distro in the least, nor is the complaint that it's too hard to install far afield. Cheers, Brooke

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Label Printing
by Bruffey, Mark 29 Mar '13

29 Mar '13

How much flexibility is there in the use of different label configurations with the new label function in KOHA? Thanks, Mark L. Mark Bruffey Director Library Services Central Baptist Theological Seminary 900 Forestview Lane N Plymouth MN 55441 763 417 8264 mbruffey(a)centralseminary.edu <mailto:mbruffey@centralseminary.edu> Central Seminary www.centralseminary.edu <http://www.centralseminary.edu> Fourth Baptist Church www.fourthbaptist.org <http://www.fourthbaptist.org> WCTS Radio AM 1030 Online www.centralseminary.edu/wcts <http://www.centralseminary.edu/wcts> *************************************** Have you experienced the good news? "Every one who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved!" [Romans 10:13] ***************************************

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Some migration issues
by Ata ur Rehman 14 Dec '12

14 Dec '12

Dear Koha Lovers / Koha Community I have installed Koha's new version (2.2.7) on Windows XP. My previous data is on an MS Access Database. I am in the process of migration data from MS Access by using MARCEdit. I have mapped my fields according to the MARC Format. Now I want to use my Accession Number as Barcode in Koha because that is the primary key for my bibliographic records. Is there any way to import all my accession numbers (I am mapping this on 001 field of MARC) into barcode field of items table of koha? Also I am trying to learn MARC from LOC website but unfortunately, 9xx fields are not available at loc, are these fields obsleted? Regards, Ata ur Rehman, Librarian, Akhter Hameed Khan Resource Center (AHKRC), NRSP-Institute of Rural Management, F-6/4, Islamabad Ph: +92 51 2822752 +92 51 2822792 http://ahkrc.net.pk

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Adding MARC fields
by Amy Purvis 07 Apr '12

07 Apr '12

I want to add some different MARC fields that are not part of the default to 2.2.6. Is there a way to do this? I already know about the " + " sign to repeat fields that are part of the default new biblio record, but I want to know if there's a way, for example, to add an 050 field. Thanks for any responses! Amy

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Language Switch
by Anousak Souphavanh 18 Nov '11

18 Nov '11

Dear all, I was wondering how one can change the user interface. I figured there is an option that we can just switch once we added two PO files (the one we translating off-line). But I could not that option anwhere under Adnistrator screen nor OPAC one. If not, maybe it's wish-list that we can add for the next release. Please suggest if you already done so.. Thank you. -- Anousak (Anthony) Souphavanh "Small can make a big impact"

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Google Summer of Koha
by Joshua M. Ferraro 05 Jul '11

05 Jul '11

Hi all, Just a heads up to the Koha community that LibLime was selected as a mentor for the Google Summer of Code program. We've got a few ideas defined already, but are certainly open to additional suggestions: http://wiki.liblime.com/doku.php?id=googlesummerofcodeideas So if you've got a neat koha-related project that's doable in a three month period by a student or group of students, let us know. And of course, if you happen to be a student, we'd love to have you involved. You can select from one of the ideas above, or come up with something completely new ... More info about the program and the application process is available at the Google Summer of Code site: http://code.google.com/soc The deadline is fast approaching so get those applications in. Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf(a)liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS

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Arabic Translation of Koha
by Mohammed Gamal 22 Jun '10

22 Jun '10

Hello everyone, I've been recently working on translating Koha to Arabic, however I can across this article on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koha_(software) ) that says that Koha was already translated to Arabic. I didn't see any arabic PO files in the main Koha distribution though. So I just want to know if Koha was translated to Arabic or not, and if it was translated then where is the Arabic PO file. Best Regards, Mohammed ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "There are 10 kinds of people, those who understand binary, and those who don't." http://sl4shb0rked.wordpress.com Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Premature end of script headers
by sharath raju 21 Dec '09

21 Dec '09

Dear All, I have installed Koha without any error. But, when I open the site http://localhost, I get a quick message stating that Koha has been installed successfully, following which I get the following error message: Premature end of script headers: opac-main.pl I understand that this issue was dealt in the following thread: http://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2003/006996.html and that the solution suggested is to give the web server permission to execute the Perl scripts ( http://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2003/006997.html) 1. My question/doubt : How does one do this on Windows ? All that I could possibly think of was to remove the read-only attribute of C:\usr\koha228\opac\cgi-bin\koha, which contains opac-main.pl file. If so, I tried doing this, but for some reason, the read only attribute does not get removed. (I am the computer administrator) 2. If this issue has been answered elsewhere, please redirect me. I tried searching the Koha archives, and the links listed above were the ones I could find. 3. I also looked at : http://htmlfixit.com/cgi-tutes/tutorial_Common_Web_dev_error_messages_and_w…, but couldn't solve the problem. Please help me solve this problem. -- Thanks & Regards, Sharath B Raju

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bulkmarcimport and different framework
by Anthony Manzo 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

Hi, I want to use the bulkmarcimport script to import records using a new biblio framework I created for my library's multimedia collection and not the default biblio framework I use for the rest of the collection. I don't see any way to specify this in the command. Is this possible to do?

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