On 14/12/10 16:39, Terry Koh wrote:
Hello everyone,
This is a pre-Koha install problem - hope it's OK asking it here.
I'm trying to install Koha 3.02 on CentOS 5.5. The Koha "make test" asks for libxslt 1.1.18 and quits with an error.
I've seen the discussions and proposed solutions on this problem in several places including on this list and I tried them out without any joy. For example, I downloaded libxslt 1.1.18 from debian and tried to install installed it. But running "make test" throws up errors, asking for higher versions of libxml, etc. and trying to install these now (using rpm) throws up other dependencies and requirements which don't play well with each other.
I don't know if there is anything specific to Debian in that package that is causing problems with CentOS. Has anyone got this working with CentOS5.5? Or is it a CPAN problem? You can't install debian packages on CentOS. They are not compatible.
The problem is the libxml2 and libxslt libraries which come with CentOS (and Red Hat Enterprise) are too old a version. In practice I've built newer ones from source: Here's some instructions written some time back:
The libxml2 and libxslt are important but the versions available from CentOs are too old.
Create and install them from SRPMs Check what the latest versions are on ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2 and fetch them e.g.
wget ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-2.7.3-1.src.rpm wget ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxslt-1.1.24-1.src.rpm
Now build and install them
rpm -i libxml2-2.7.3-1.src.rpm rpm -i libxslt-1.1.24-1.src.rpm cd /usr/src/redhat rpmbuild -bb SPECS/libxml2.spec cd RPMS/i386 rpm -Uvh libxml2-* cd /usr/src/redhat rpmbuild -bb SPECS/libxslt.spec cd RPMS/i386 rpm -Uvh libxslt-*
libsxlt is dependent on the version of libxml2 so it is best to update both together. Once they are both installed you should be able to install the perl modules XML::LibXML and XML::LibXSLT from cpan. (a horrible further complication is that the later versions of the libraries are packaged in srpms using a version of rpm which CentOs' could not read. This might be fixed in 5.5) Cheers Colin -- Colin Campbell Chief Software Engineer, PTFS Europe Limited Content Management and Library Solutions +44 (0) 845 557 5634 (phone) +44 (0) 7759 633626 (mobile) colin.campbell@ptfs-europe.com skype: colin_campbell2 http://www.ptfs-europe.com