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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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zebra problem
by Mohamed Fekry Negm 22 Jun '10

22 Jun '10

hi to all i'm installed koha on debian in last steps in zebra when i run sudo -u {KOHA_USER} zebrasrv -f /etc/koha/koha-conf.xml i get sudo: no passwd entry for {KOHA_USER}! what i shall do now . and when i write in my browser localhost:8080 i get apache page it works . any suggestions , help thank's ti all _________________________________________________________________ News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now! http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx

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Corrupted record
by Beda Szukics 25 May '10

25 May '10

Hi all When I do a "rebuild_zebra.pl -b" I allways get the following error: problem with :577 : :38: parser error : Premature end of data in tag subfield line 38 <subfield code="6">SCH ^ :38: parser error : Premature end of data in tag datafield line 33 <subfield code="6">SCH ^ :38: parser error : Premature end of data in tag record line 2 <subfield code="6">SCH ^ at /usr/lib/perl5/XML/LibXML/SAX/Parser.pm line 31 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <record xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim http://www.loc.gov/ standards/marcxml/schema/MARC21slim.xsd" xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"> <leader>00521nam a2200133 4500</leader> <controlfield tag="008"> 960105s1970||||||||||||||||||||||||||||ger</controlfield> <datafield tag="245" ind1="0" ind2="4"> <subfield code="a">Die schÃ¶nsten Helden- und Rittersagen des Mittelalters /</subfield> <subfield code="c">[FÃ¼r die Jugend bearb. von] Gerhard Aick ; Mit vielen Zeichnungen von Erich HÃ¶lle</subfield> </datafield> <datafield tag="260" ind1=" " ind2=" "> <subfield code="a">Wien :</subfield> <subfield code="b">Tosa Verlag,</subfield> <subfield code="c">[ca. 1970]</subfield> </datafield> <datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "> <subfield code="a">508 S. :</subfield> <subfield code="b">Ill. ;</subfield> <subfield code="c">23 cm</subfield> </datafield> <datafield tag="700" ind1="1" ind2=" "> <subfield code="a">Aick, Gerhard</subfield> </datafield> <datafield tag="700" ind1="1" ind2=" "> <subfield code="a">HÃ¶lle, Erich</subfield> </datafield> <datafield tag="942" ind1=" " ind2=" "> <subfield code="c">BUCH</subfield> <subfield code="k">SCHÃ</subfield> </datafield> <datafield tag="952" ind1=" " ind2=" "> <subfield code="7">0</subfield> <subfield code="p">160</subfield> <subfield code="4">0</subfield> <subfield code="0">0</subfield> <subfield code="6">SCH at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 836. 07:49:09-19/06 zebraidx(23461) [log] zebra_start 2.0.30 /etc/koha/zebradb/zebra-biblios.cfg 07:49:09-19/06 zebraidx(23461) [log] Loaded filter module /usr/lib/idzebra-2.0/modules/mod-text.so 07:49:09-19/06 zebraidx(23461) [log] Loaded filter module /usr/lib/idzebra-2.0/modules/mod-grs-xml.so 07:49:09-19/06 zebraidx(23461) [log] Loaded filter module /usr/lib/idzebra-2.0/modules/mod-grs-regx.so 07:49:09-19/06 zebraidx(23461) [log] Loaded filter module /usr/lib/idzebra-2.0/modules/mod-alvis.so 07:49:09-19/06 zebraidx(23461) [log] Loaded filter module /usr/lib/idzebra-2.0/modules/mod-grs-marc.so 07:49:09-19/06 zebraidx(23461) [log] Loaded filter module /usr/lib/idzebra-2.0/modules/mod-dom.so 07:49:09-19/06 zebraidx(23461) [log] enabling shadow spec=/var/lib/koha/zebradb/biblios/shadow:4G 07:49:09-19/06 zebraidx(23461) [log] cache_fname = /var/lib/koha/zebradb/biblios/shadow/cache 07:49:09-19/06 zebraidx(23461) [log] dir /tmp/Ar02gqTnVB/biblio 07:49:09-19/06 zebraidx(23461) [log] update grs.marcxml.record /tmp/Ar02gqTnVB/biblio/exported_records 0 The correspondig record seems to be lost. I can't search on any of the terms on it. But in the Inventory the record show up. If I click on it I get: Koha error The following fatal error has occurred: Can't call method "fields" on an undefined value at /usr/share/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/catalogue/MARCdetail.pl line 123. Apache Server version: Apache/2.2.3 Server built: Jan 27 2008 18:13:21 Koha 3.00.00.067 Koha DB 3.0000067 MySQL mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.32, for pc-linux-gnu (i486) using readline 5.2 OS Linux verwaltung 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Sat May 24 10:24:42 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux Perl 5.008008 Is there a way to edit (or delete) this corrupted record. (I guess the mistake lies in the SCHÖ of the call number. Thank you Beda

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