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Intro
by Michael Williams 25 Aug '00

25 Aug '00

Hello, I am Michael Williams, Network Supervisor for Haywood County Schools, located in North Carolina, USA. One of our Media Specialists has pointed me to your site and is very excited about the software. We are currently fighting an old DOS based system, trying to get it to run on a linux server and she thought this might be a solution. Does this support importing MARC records, and has anyone converted to this from an exsisting system. Michael

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Fwd: Re: [Koha] Some questions from a newbie
by Simon Blake 24 Aug '00

24 Aug '00

Hi Scott On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:35:54AM -0400, Scott McGillivray said: > First, does Koha support interlibrary loans through z39.50? Or maybe some > other method? I didn't see a way to do it through the web interface, but > maybe it's accessible through the telnet interface? It's probably not (or maybe it is, I dunno :-) immediately obvious but Koha was a Y2K rush job, in order to replace a system, or more strictly a network, that clearly wasn't Y2K compliant. Consequently, anything that wasn't imediately necessary for Levin Library to handle it's own collections was largely ignored. So no, there is no mechanism for Koha to communicate with other systems via any standard protocol, other than possibly ANSI SQL, which is probably a little lower level than we might all like. Having said that, we're keen to see Koha as standards compliant as possible, and so would support addition of both Z39.50 and XML interfaces (or indeed anything else that was deemed worthwhile). However neither are a priority at the moment over basic bug fixing and functionality enhancement. OTOH, if somebody else added z39.50 support, or offered us a bunch of cash to elevate it up the priority list, then you never know what might happen. > Next, it looks to me like everything needed to make Kona run should work on > Linux for the Alpha processor as well as x86. Has anybody tried this? Is > there anything I should look out for? My current automation system runs > under OpenVMS on an AlphaServer and I'd like to keep using this machine. It needs perl, a database engine accessible from perl via DBI, and a webserver. The further you "deviate" from linux&mysql&perl&apache, the more little changes you're likely to need to make to get it going. However, I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work on any *nix pretty much out of the box, and with a bit of love it would probably work directly under OpenVMS, or Win32. > I guess that's it. I'd love to hear how this system has worked out for > people...good and bad. As indeed do we :-). Bear in mind that it's a very young system, with the commensurate bug problems and functionality holes. Having said that, there's a fair bit of interest being generated in it, which is neat, since it hasn't been publicised particularly widely yet, and we're dead keen to see it be a roaring success. Cheers Si -- Simon Blake simon(a)katipo.co.nz Katipo Communications +64 25 300 825

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Koha - The worlds first open source library systems ?
by Stuart A Yeates 24 Aug '00

24 Aug '00

Hello Everyone On the Koha homepage (http://www.koha.org/) I notice the claim that it is ``the worlds first Free Open Source Library System,'' which is apparently true if `Library System' is defined to be `a computer system to run a _physical_ library.' There is, however, an earlier system, Greenstone, from the New Zealand Digital Library (www.nzdl.org) which solves (or attempts to solve) the problem of running a _digital_ library. Greenstone, under active development at the Waikato University Computer Science Department. We have translated our interface into Maori (thanks to Te Taka Keegan for our Maori interface) and several other languages including Arabic (thanks to Malika Mahoui) (Arabic is challenging as it's reading order is right->left not left->right), so when you come to localise Koha into Maori you may wish to use our stuff as a stepping stone. It's all GPL, so you're free to take what you need (download greenstone from our web site at www.nzdl.org) It's good to see other kiwis doing innovative library stuff. stuart [grad student]

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Some questions from a newbie
by Scott McGillivray 24 Aug '00

24 Aug '00

Hello all, I just found the Koha website and am very impressed with what I've seen! I do have a couple of questions that I couldn't find answers for... First, does Koha support interlibrary loans through z39.50? Or maybe some other method? I didn't see a way to do it through the web interface, but maybe it's accessible through the telnet interface? Next, it looks to me like everything needed to make Kona run should work on Linux for the Alpha processor as well as x86. Has anybody tried this? Is there anything I should look out for? My current automation system runs under OpenVMS on an AlphaServer and I'd like to keep using this machine. I guess that's it. I'd love to hear how this system has worked out for people...good and bad. Have fun, Scott ----------------------------------------------- Scott McGillivray Network Administrator Ann Arbor District Library scott(a)aadl.org

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RE: [Koha] hard coded paths in Output.pm
by Matthew Kelly (CPL) 21 Aug '00

21 Aug '00

To get the whole thing to run I have done the following. Linux · Downloaded the following to /usr/local/src/project · Data-Dumper-2_101_tar.gz · DBI-1.13.tar.gz · Msql-Mysql-modules-1_2209_tar.gz · MySQL-3.22.32-1.i386.rpm · MySQL-3_22_32-1_src.rpm · MySQL-bench-3.22.32-1.i386.rpm · MySQL-client-3.22.32-1.i386.rpm Mysql installation MySQL Installation (From Source Distribution) Using MySQL-3_22_32.tar.gz in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES 1. gzip -c -d mysql-3.22.32.tar.gz | tar xvf - 2. cd mysql-3.22.32 3. ./configure 4. Check the configure output for errors. 5. make 6. make install 7. /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_install_db 8. cp /usr/local/mysql/share/mysql/mysql.server /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql.server 9. change the attrib to allow exec access (0777 will do) 10. /sbin/chkconfig --level 2 mysql.server on 11. /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 mysql.server on 12. /sbin/chkconfig --level 4 mysql.server on 13. /sbin/chkconfig --level 5 mysql.server on Data-Dumper Installation 1. cd /usr/local/src/project 2. gzip -c -d Data-Dumper-2_101_tar.gz | tar xvf - 3. cd Data-Dumper-2.101 4. perl Makefile.pl 5. make 6. make test 7. make install DBI-1.13 installation 1. cd /usr/local/src/project 2. gzip -c -d DBI-1.13.tar.gz | tar xvf - 3. cd DBI-1.13 4. perl Makefile.pl 5. make 6. make test 7. make install Msql-Mysql-modules installation 8. cd /usr/local/src/project 9. gzip -c -d Msql-Mysql-modules-1_2209_tar.gz | tar xvf - 10. cd Msql-Mysql-modules-1.2209 11. perl Makefile.pl 12. when asked use choose 1, then press enter to the rest of the options 13. make 14. make test 15. make install Setup Koha project 1. cd /usr/local/src/project 2. gzip -c -d koha-1.00.tar.gz | tar xvf - 3. mv /usr/local/src/project/kohadl/opac-html /home/httpd/html/opac-html 4. mv /usr/local/src/project/kohadl/intranet-html /home/httpd/html/intranet-html 5. cd /usr/local/mysql 6. bin/mysqladmin create koha 7. mysql -uroot mysql 8. insert into user (Host,User,Password) values ('localhost','koha',password('koha')); 9. insert into db values ('localhost','koha','koha','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y'); 10. mysqladmin -uroot reload 11. mysql -ukoha -pkoha koha 12. mysql -uroot koha < koha.mysql 13. We need to edit C4/Database.pm 14. To make it use the user and the database name we have chosen 15. cp /usr/local/src/project/kohadl/scripts/c4 /home/httpd/cgi-bin/ 16. mkdir /home/httpd/cgi-bin/koha 17. cp /usr/local/src/project/kohadl/scripts/*.pl /home/httpd/cgi-bin/koha 18. /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf 19. Change the "DocumentRoot" in the Apache configuration to "/home/httpd/html/opac-html" 20. Created a Virtual site in Apache like the following, Listen koha.mysite.co.nz:6588 listen barney.mysite.co.nz:80 Port 80 Port 6588 AddHandler cgi-script .cgi AddHandler cgi-script .pl # # To use server-parsed HTML files # AddType text/html .shtml AddHandler server-parsed .shtml AddType text/html .html AddHandler server-parsed .html AddType text/html .inc AddHandler server-parsed .inc <VirtualHost koha.mysite.co.nz> ServerAdmin matthew.kelly(a)press.co.nz DocumentRoot /home/httpd/html/intranet-html ServerName koha.mysite.co.nz ErrorLog /home/httpd/html/intranet-html/logs/error_log TransferLog /home/httpd/html/intranet-html/logs/access_log </VirtualHost> 21. copied the Includes folder to /usr/local/www/htl/htdocs Hope that helps

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Re: [Koha] hard coded paths in Output.pm]
by Chris Cormack 20 Aug '00

20 Aug '00

* Benedykt P. Barszcz <kb2qzv(a)box43.gnet.pl> [000820 00:23]: > Hi, I have found out that there's some hardcoded paths in Output.pm: > /usr/local/www/hdl/htdocs/includes/ > which presents difficulty at installation. > Temporary solution was to make a symbolic link. Ahhh sorry my mistake again. I should have put in the install instructions that you need to edit Output.pm I've done a little rewrite to C4/Output.pm to make it easier to change There is a variable $path that you need to set to value of where your includes are stored. > I have not been able to install koha to make it work anyhow. > If there's anyone who could give hints on how to do it, please do so. > Benedict, can you try doing a search in koha, in the opac maybe. And take a look at the apache error_log for it. That may help shed some light on whats happening. Or you can send the log to me if you like and ill take a look at it. Chris -- Chris Cormack Katipo Communications Programmer/Sys Admin chris(a)katipo.co.nz 025 500 789 www.katipo.co.nz

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hard coded paths in Output.pm
by Benedykt P. Barszcz 19 Aug '00

19 Aug '00

Hi, I have found out that there's some hardcoded paths in Output.pm: /usr/local/www/hdl/htdocs/includes/ which presents difficulty at installation. Temporary solution was to make a symbolic link. I have not been able to install koha to make it work anyhow. If there's anyone who could give hints on how to do it, please do so. thnaks for any answer. Benedict. --------------------------------------- Darmowe kursy HTML, JavaScript, Flash http://fabryka.republika.pl/kurs/ ---------------------------------------

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New Version Avaliable 1.03
by Chris Cormack 19 Aug '00

19 Aug '00

Hi All Ive put a new version up for download. A few major changes in this version - All books waiting for a borrower are now showing on their card in the telnet screen. - Reference books never being able to the public - Reworked searches, allowing class search to combine with the title, author and keyword searchs - Added an exact title search Chris -- Chris Cormack Katipo Communications Programmer/Sys Admin chris(a)katipo.co.nz 025 500 789 www.katipo.co.nz

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tar ball defective?
by Benedykt P. Barszcz 17 Aug '00

17 Aug '00

Hi, While untarring the tarball with koha-1.01.tar.gz I get these messages: gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ingored tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors I am using tar zxvf koha-1.01.tar.gz command. Is this OK? Also, the filenames eg. front-mouseover-memeber.gif are not called from scripts by their right name. Apache complains that such file doesn't exist. That's because it is called as front-mouseover-members.gif. regards, Benedict --------------------------------------- Darmowe kursy HTML, JavaScript, Flash http://fabryka.republika.pl/kurs/ ---------------------------------------

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internationalization of koha?
by Benedykt P. Barszcz 17 Aug '00

17 Aug '00

Hi all, I have partially installed koha 1.01 and I am impressed with the completeness functionality if offers. I was wondering how many files do I have to translate in order for it to speak and present itself to users in their own native tongue? thanks for any answers. Also, how to populate the tables in mysql with koha bypassing the "commercialism" of placing some orders - as I have noticed...? Benedict P. Barszcz --------------------------------------- Darmowe kursy HTML, JavaScript, Flash http://fabryka.republika.pl/kurs/ ---------------------------------------

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