Hi, I have finally installed Koha 21.11.04 on AlmaLinux 8 and I was able to start the Web Installer. Everything seems to be working fine. However, when I get to the creation of the "Koha Administrator Patron" (in Onboarding section), after filling in all the required data, I always get this error message: "The patron has not been created! Cardnumber or Userid may already exist." and I cannot proceed with the Web Installer. Does anyone have an idea what can cause this issue? Thanks and have a nice day! Alessandro *Alessandro Tedesco, Ph.D.* Direttore della Biblioteca "Cardinale Carlo Maria Martini" del Seminario Arcivescovile di Milano Via Pio XI, 32 – 21040 Venegono Inferiore (VA) | www.BibliotecaSeminarioMilano.it <https://bibliotecaseminariomilano.it/> *E-mail:* alessandrotedesco@seminario.milano.it *Tel.:* +39 0331 867 610 Il giorno mar 19 apr 2022 alle ore 01:55 <dcook@prosentient.com.au> ha scritto:
It's certainly possible to install Koha on AlmaLinux, but it will probably be a challenging experience, as the main community supported installation is using Debian packages on Debian/Ubuntu.
In the past, I used to run a customized version of Koha on OpenSUSE using RPM packages. That made code deployments much easier. My spec file wouldn't be directly usable, but I could provide some advice, if you went down that route.
For Perl dependencies, as Tomas says, you'd want to use the cpanfile. ( https://metacpan.org/dist/Module-CPANfile/view/lib/cpanfile.pod and https://metacpan.org/pod/cpanm).
Docker could be an option, but I wouldn't suggest it unless you're already familiar with using Docker.
Your main challenges with AlmaLinux would probably be installing the Perl dependencies, configuring Apache, setting up cronjobs, and setting up services (Zebra indexer, Zebra search server, Plack application server). You get all of that for free with the Debian packages, but have to do it manually with other installation methods.
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Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 11:53:03 -0300 From: Tomas Cohen Arazi <tomascohen@gmail.com> To: Alessandro Tedesco <alessandrotedesco@seminario.milano.it> Cc: koha <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: Re: [Koha] Install Koha on AlmaLinux 8 Message-ID: <CABZfb=Vh7Z0f_bcMa3sY1=tjL9rUUk= bnFioTVGUEcd-pHKaXw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
The Koha source code contains a cpanfile, which can be used to pull the perl dependencies.
The rest should be an old school dev install.
I think the instructions you were given should work for most of it.
El mié, 13 abr 2022 9:48, Alessandro Tedesco < alessandrotedesco@seminario.milano.it> escribió:
Hi all,
I have to install Koha on AlmaLinux 8 and I wonder if anyone has tried to do such a thing, or if anyone can suggest some documentation.
Thanks and have a good day!
Alessandro
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