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Newbie Question
by Dorian Meid 08 Jul '02

08 Jul '02

Hello, I've just downloaded koha from the Website and installed it. Then i discoverd a few Bugs (to many arguments for C4 call makelink in some skripts)and correctet them. Now i'm just playing around and every second click leads me to another bug. I'm wondering if I do have the latest version of koha or if there are newer ones. The hlt.katipo demo runs much better then my bunch of skripts (I'm not asking: why does it look different, meanwhile I've set the Preference-Variabels). Thanks in advance Dorian

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Some question: postgres, italian, ...
by Marco Gaiarin 08 Jul '02

08 Jul '02

I'm looking for a library management software for my organization, so i've found koha. Interesting... ;-))) Some question: 1) there's just a translation in Italian?! Can i contribute this?! 2) i want to use koha with postgres, but i need assurance that work with potgres. I've had experience with other software written for mysql that in theory work with pgsql but in practice all sources have to be rewritten. ;( 3) In any case need to be rewritten the schema. Please, don't distribute the schema in mysql dump format, is not portable and are full of (nonstandard) SQL instruction. Someone have just rewritten the schema for postgres?! Basically have to be rewritten the KEY instances (to CREATE INDEX) and the auto_increment (to serial). Again: PG support real referential integrity (FOREIGN KEY). There's somewhere a E/R schema that explain referential integrity, or can i add referential integrity (if someone exlain me the schema?!). 4) I'm new to library related problem, but seems that the MARC format is a standard in this field. Someone know if this also rule for european country?! Before starting a big google session, if someone have some pointers... Thanks. -- dott. Marco Gaiarin GNUPG Key ID: 240A3D66 Associazione ``La Nostra Famiglia'' http://www.sv.lnf.it/ Polo FVG - Via della Bontà, 7 - 33078 - San Vito al Tagliamento (PN) gaio(at)sv.lnf.it tel +39-0434-842711 fax +39-0434-842797 Supporta il disegno di legge sul software libero! http://www.softwarelibero.it/news/news020417_01.shtml

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RE: [Koha] Problems with 1.2.1 on Red Hat 7.2
by Tonnesen Steve 05 Jul '02

05 Jul '02

On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Joshua Ferraro wrote: > /usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4/Search.pm line 8. BEGIN > failed--compilation aborted at > /usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4/Search. > How can I change @INC to include what it should? Also, how do I force > the use of the new C4 dorectory? You've got it done now. If you look at the Search.pm path now, you'll see that it is in /usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4 which is the correct path for the 1.2.1 C4 directory. That part is fixed. As far as Set::Scalar. Do you know where it is installed? Try running locate Scalar.pm or find / -name Scalar.pm -print (much slower, use only if locate doesn't work) Steve.

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Problems with 1.2.1 on Red Hat 7.2
by Joshua Ferraro 05 Jul '02

05 Jul '02

Hi all, I just installed Koha 1.2.1 on a Red Hat 7.2 machine running Apache 1.3.22 using the installer.pl script. Everything looked good, but when I tried out the search engine I got the following error: Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, jferraro(a)athenscounty.lib.oh.us and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. The /var/log/httpd/error_log file contains the following entries: Can't locate Set/Scalar.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-lin ux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5 /site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_p erl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux/C4/Sear ch.pm line 8. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux/C4/Search.p m line 8. Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/koha/opac/cgi-bin/search.pl line 5. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/koha/opac/cgi-bin/search.pl line 5. [Fri Jul 5 15:13:41 2002] [error] [client 66.213.78.100] Premature end of scrip t headers: /usr/local/koha/opac/cgi-bin/search.pl [Fri Jul 5 15:21:09 2002] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Fri Jul 5 15:21:12 2002] [notice] Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_ss l/2.8.5 OpenSSL/0.9.6b DAV/1.0.2 PHP/4.0.6 mod_perl/1.26 configured -- resuming normal operations [Fri Jul 5 15:21:12 2002] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin /suexec) [Fri Jul 5 15:21:12 2002] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default: sysvsem) Any ideas? Joshua Ferraro Systems Administrator Nelsonville Public Library System

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From the Kaitiaki
by Pat Eyler 05 Jul '02

05 Jul '02

5 July, 2002 To the Koha community; hello, This week, we've got something to celebrate! Yesterday was the day we celebrate our Independence in the United States. I think that we're well on our way to declaring our independence from proprietary library systems. Koha is moving along nicely, and it seems that other porjects that dovetail nicely with ours are doing well to. 1.2 1.2.1 hit the streets yesterday. It included improvements to the installer, the inclusion of sample data (for testing), improvements in the Z39.50 system, and a number of bugfixes. Chris has plans for more improvements in the 1.2 series, but we'd encourage you to install 1.2.1 instead of waiting. The newer 1.2 releases will be a very simple upgrade from your existing systems, which means less pain for you. Getting involved in 1.2 now means that you'll have the opportunity to help steer the project through your input, which means more gain for you. Less pain and more gain is a win all the way around. Translations This is the first note that will be translated (as far as I know). I'm looking forward to seeing a whole new group becoming involved in Koha as each set of translations starts up. If you're interested in translating this or other Koha documents, please get in touch with me (<kaitiaki(a)koha.org>) to find out if anyone else is working in your language already. Community We've had another Koha support vendor start up this week, this time in Nigeria. Beyond this, we're starting to talk in more detail with librarians about helping to steer the project. Two big developments outside the Koha project are worth noting: * the MARC::Record project has released version 1.00 of their software. This is a big step for them, and represents a major win for the larger free software for libraries community. * a new project is starting up to develop a SIP and NCIP module for Perl. This project is already talking to some Koha developers as well as the people in the MyLibrary project. We're already using MARC::Record in our 1.4 development, and are looking forward to having SIP/NCIP tools that we can merge into Koha as well. Projects like this are a great boon to us and to other library projects. I'd encourage anyone with the skills and interest to support worthy projects like this in any way you can. A project is underway to start developing a larger organization to help coordinate work within free software for library projects. As more information develops, I'll share it here. Koha is continuing to build momentum and the community is growing as well. This really is your chance to get in on the ground floor of an exciting new endeavor. Whether you choose to get involved in Koha, MyLibrary, MARC::Record, the new SIP/NCIP project, or some other Free Software project doesn't matter, what matters is that you get involved. You can write code if you're able, write documentation if you're up to it, or test new software releases if you have the hardware. There are a lot of ways that you can get involved, the important thing is that you do. happy hacking, -pate Pat Eyler Kaitiaki of the Koha Project

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Koha 1.2.1
by Pat Eyler 04 Jul '02

04 Jul '02

Koha 1.2.1 is ready! After almost a month of planning, coding, testing, and tweaking we've put together a new version of Koha for your book lending pleasure. Koha 1.2.1 represents a major improvement over 1.2.0. We've spent a great deal of time working on the installer/upgrader, and using these tools are now the recommended way of installing Koha on your system. Koha 1.2.1 includes our new manual, which should help you get up and running faster. The Z39.50 sub-system has been overhauled and is now much better (and easier to install to boot!). We've also cleaned up a number of bugs that crept into the 1.2.0 release -- and begun to build up our testing procedures to reduce new bugs in future releases. Please download the latest release of Koha (and find out lots more about the project) at <http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/koha/>. We encourage you to get this new release and give it a spin. We think you'll like what you see. We plan on continuing to improve Koha, and would love to have you come along on this exciting journey. Chris Cormack Pat Eyler 1.2 Release Manager Kaitiaki/Manager the Koha Project the Koha Project

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Getting Data into Koha
by Olugbenga Adara 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

Hello all, First I want to thank everybody who has contributed in giving us this great software. Please can anybody advice me on the best method of getting data into koha. I am in the process of installing koha for a university here in Nigeria which has about 800,000 items in their library. They are currently using TINLIB and have about 300,000 items already entered into TINLIB. I think it will be clumsy and take ages to use acqui simple. I believe maybe the data could be entered directly into the database by designing a simple interface to easily enter the relevant information. Any help / suggestion will be highly appreciated. Thanks. Olugbenga Adara Ibadan, Nigeria. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com

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Feature Request : Database Tables
by Tom Albrecht 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the correct address for feature requests, but here goes. If I'm wrong, please let me know where I should send it. I've been testing Koha for our church library, and it looks like exactly what we need. However, I've noticed a database shortcoming that if addressed would make things a lot easier for me. The database tables Biblio and Bibliosubject are linked with the common field biblionumber, with a one-to-many relationship, allowing multiple subjects for a particular title. This is wonderful, but the list of available subject strings are not stored anywhere, and are entered manually. My thought is that there should be another table, say "subjects" that would contain two fields, a unique subject ID number, and a subject string. Then, replace the string "subject" in bibliosubject with the id number. This has multiple advantages... 1) It allows a universal subject name change to be easily implemented. For example, currently, if I want to change all instances of "FEMINIST THEOLOGY" with "FEMINIST DOCTRINE", I'd have to search and replace through every "bibliosubject" record. With the change, I would only need to change one "subject" record. 2) It allows for an exclusive list of subjects. I would hate to accidently misspell "Religien", and create a whole new field. If the "subject" table were exhaustive, only fields from that table would be allowed to be use. Please let me know your thoughts! Tom Albrecht III

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Re: [Koha-devel] 1.2.1 RC6
by Pat Eyler 29 Jun '02

29 Jun '02

RC tarballs can also be found at http://pate.eylerfamily.org/Koha/ Please feel free to grab it and test it (and let us know what you find). Please, remember that these are release candidates only -- using them may cause all of your hair to fall out (unless you're already bald, in which case it will all grow back in but will be purple.) thanks, -pate On 29 Jun 2002, Chris Cormack wrote: > Hi all > > A new and even shinier release candidate is out. > Included in RC6 are some fixes for some bugs that crept into RC5 as well > as extending the installer script to set up basic authentication for the > intranet. > > http://developer.koha.org/koha-1.2.1RC6.tar.gz > > Please download and put it through its paces. > Bugs can be reported at bugs.koha.org > > Chris >

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Koha success stories sought
by Pat Eyler 28 Jun '02

28 Jun '02

Hello, I'd like to write an article about Koha for the linuxgazette (or see someone else write one if they'd rather). Key to doing so would be to gather one or more success stories about using it, writing an introductory text, and creating a list of resources (links) for people to follow up with. Any stories contributed might also make nice articles for www.perl.com in their success stories. If anyone is interested in contributing stories (or writing the article), please drop me a line. thanks, -pate

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