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general IRC meetings
by Pat Eyler 26 Mar '03

26 Mar '03

Since it's been almost a year since our last series of IRC meetings about Koha, it's about time to kick off the stretch into a 2.0.0 release with a couple of meetings to let everyone know how things stand. We'd like to break things into two meetings just to keep them managable. Here's the plan: 8 April 2003 1200 PST (GMT-7) Paul state of 2.0 Nick state of Docs Pat state of project meet and greet Ingrid Q & A for management team 9 April 2003 1200 PST (GMT-7) A town hall meeting (time to toss out ideas, get to know people better, introduce Koha sub-projects, etc.) -pate Pat Eyler Kaitiaki/manager migrant Linux sys admin the Koha project ruby, shell, and perl geek http://www.koha.org http://pate.eylerfamily.org

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Very naive question from a non-librarian
by Nigel Titley 25 Mar '03

25 Mar '03

Folks, This is probably going to sound like a very simple question to the real librarians amongst you, but I'd like a little guidance if anyone can spare the time. I'm using Koha to catalogue our family book collection (I hesitate to call it a library). Its about 3000 or so volumes and scattered through various book cases throughout the house. It is vaguely organised by various criteria, like size, suitability for children (low shelves), fiction (by author), non-fiction (roughly by subject) etc. What I would like Koha to tell me is where (bookcase) each volume is located. Which would be the appropriate field in the biblioitem to store this information? If this is a stupid question, then tell me, I'm not a librarian but a computer scientist with an interest in books. Many thanks Nigel

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Running Installer.pl
by Vydunas Gimnazija 25 Mar '03

25 Mar '03

Hi, I managed to get all my perl modules installed [hint: install package perl-libnet first], and then ran perl installer.pl When the installer gets to the part about "Enter root password for MySQL server", it never accepts any answer. I can go ahead to /usr/local/mysql, change to super user, and run (for example) ./bin/mysqladmin -u root -h Wilhelm --password=oldpass password 'new password' and modify the password, but apparently when installer.pl tries it, it messes up. Does anyone know why this would happen? __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com

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Very naive question from a non-librarian (resent from the right email address)
by Nigel Titley 25 Mar '03

25 Mar '03

Folks, This is probably going to sound like a very simple question to the real librarians amongst you, but I'd like a little guidance if anyone can spare the time. I'm using Koha to catalogue our family book collection (I hesitate to call it a library). Its about 3000 or so volumes and scattered through various book cases throughout the house. It is vaguely organised by various criteria, like size, suitability for children (low shelves), fiction (by author), non-fiction (roughly by subject) etc. What I would like Koha to tell me is where (bookcase) each volume is located. Which would be the appropriate field in the biblioitem to store this information? If this is a stupid question, then tell me, I'm not a librarian but a computer scientist with an interest in books. Many thanks Nigel

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Koha Bug Report
by Pat Eyler 24 Mar '03

24 Mar '03

Bug Report for -All- Tue Mar 25 06:46:23 2003 Summary New Bugs This Week 9 Bugs Marked New 47 Bugs Marked Assigned 5 Bugs Marked Reopened 0 Total Bugs 52 Bug Count by Engineer Owner New Assigned Reopened Total a.c.li(a)ieee.org 1 0 0 1 chris(a)katipo.co.nz 24 2 0 26 paul.poulain(a)free.fr 1 0 0 1 tonnesen(a)cmsd.bc.ca 21 3 0 24 I'll probably continue to send these out periodically (especially as I see good news). The neet bit about today is that the bug count is creeping up. I know that sound bad, but let me explain. Ingrid has been hard at work on the QA side of the house and has begun translating that effort into verified bugs against the current CVS tree. Having these bugs in the bug database at bugs.koha.org will help us work toward a cleaner, better 2.0.0 release. Thanks Ingrid! I'd like to encourage everyone to take a look at bugs.koha.org ... If you're a developer you might pick a bug to squash, if you're a koha user, maybe you know of a problem that doesn't have a bug report yet. The more we use this tool, the better Koha will be for all of us. -pate

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Installing Net::z3950
by Michael Rudmin 24 Mar '03

24 Mar '03

I tried running perl installer.pl , as an alternative setup method. What I got back was a message "The Net::z3950 module is missing. This module is necessary if you want to download records from other libraries. To install this module, get the yaz client from http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz, and install the perl module with the command perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::z3950'. So I went ahead and installed YAZ, and then ran the perl line described. I got back a bunch of errors that FTP sites couldn't be found, beginning with the message Please, install Net:FTP as soon as possible. CPAN.pm installs it for you if you just type install Bundle::libnet followed by the message "Looking up ftp.perl.org... unable to locate remote host ftp.perl.org. Unable to connect to FTP host. There is more about looking up information, and such, and failing, and asking if I want to edit my sources. Anyhow, when I try to type #install Bundle::libnet I get similar errors. Does anyone know what I have to do to get this running? __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com

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Where is C4 directory?
by Michael Rudmin 24 Mar '03

24 Mar '03

Hi, I'm a first time Koha installer. Worse, I'm first time for most of Apache, MySql, but I seem to have those systems up and running already. --------------- QUICK START GUIDE LINK: http://koha.org/installation/quick-start.html --------------- Anyhow, I was going through the Quick Start Guide, and got to step 7, "Create directories...", and it said "Next, copy the C4 directory...." Okay, my files are all in /home/mokrudmin/app_downloads/koha/untar/koha-1.2.3 I don't see any "C4" directory there; I'm guesing that I'm supposed to look in "scripts", but there I only see "marc","misc","t","telnet","tkperl","translator","updater", and "z3849daemon". Can someone tell me where this C4 directory is? Alternatively, if the quick-start installation guide is out of date, should I be using a main installation manual instead? Thanks. - Michael Rudmin teacher, Vydunas Gimnasium, Silute Lithuania __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com

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Apache windows config
by Waylon Robertson 24 Mar '03

24 Mar '03

hiya. Im trying to set up a windows koha. the installation script didnt work really.. so i did some massaging... but the apache conf file koha puts out doesnt seem to be valid. could someone in the windows world send me a valid koha virtualhost setup'ed config file for apache?

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Re: [Koha] Hey All....
by COURYHOUSE＠aol.com 24 Mar '03

24 Mar '03

Sure put me down as "ed sharpe the guy that does not write code anymore but enjoys being in the middle of it all!" Thanks Ed Sharpe, Archivist for SMECC See the Museum's Web Site at www.smecc.org We are always looking for items to add to the museum's display and ref. library please advise if you have anything we can use. mail: Coury House / SMECC 5802 W. Palmaire Ave. Glendale Az 85301 USA 623-435-1522 CONFIDENZIALE: Questo messaggio e gli eventuali allegati sono confidenziali e riservati. Se vi è stato recapitato per errore e non siete fra i destinatari elencati, siete pregati di darne immediatamente avviso al mittente. Le informazioni contenute non devono essere mostrate ad altri, né utilizzate, memorizzate o copiate in qualsiasi forma. CONFIDENTIAL: This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may contain reserved information. If you are not one of the named recipients, please notify the sender immediately. Moreover, you should not disclose the contents to any other persons, nor should the information contained be used for any purpose or stored or copied in any form.

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Hey All....
by Nicholas S. Rosasco 24 Mar '03

24 Mar '03

It's almost that time again.... Since we're looking at an upcoming 2.0 release for Koha, it is time to start reading the section of the manual everyone loves to hate :), the Installation Section. At the Wiki look under "Koha - Documentation Writer Links" on: http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/wiki/index.php?page=KohaProject NewSectionOneA (The first part, covering basic install) NewSectionOneB (Manual Install) NewSectionOneC (Alternative Options) These all need overhauls, if only because of technical changes in Koha and the pathnames, etc. If you've installed Koha, or if you've been looking to contribute somehow [feel free to insert questions where you think things are unclear], PLEASE have at these wiki sections. If you're not in the CREDITS list, this will get you listed in it! If you are, umm.... I think up some other incentive. Maybe I can get Katipo to contribute cute photos of Olive or something :) Thanks to Regula and the folks at HLT, the handy section that helps librarians will be ready in record time (as soon as I get a chance to finish folding in some changes and additions they've been good enough to send me). And, barring a huge shift in the way Koha's contributors work, the sections for developers will remain much the same. Fire away, all, Nick Documentation victim, Koha.

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