Slight OT for this thread, but for people who may be interested ... Mason James <mason.loves.sushi@gmail.com> writes:
lets keep it simple - and stay focused on the koha debian package first
I had to re-do the Koha install I had done couple of weeks back.(details were posted here). This time, I choose Debian _experimental_. Started with an etch netboot ISO on a USB stick, installed the base operating system, upgraded to testing and then to experimental. (I know, it IS very adventurous. People will fry me alive for using debian experimental on a production server; but Debian experimental is more stable than RHEL they wanted to implement Koha on). And installed Koha 3.00.00 from the tarball. I think the list in install_misc/debian.packages are incomplete, since Makefile.PL complained about missing dependencies. After running make and "make install", I had installed CGI::Session and some other perl libraries from CPAN. _after_ this, I found that experimental has 4.40-1 of CGI::Session, so went ahead and installed it. I was stuck for about half an hour, since I forgot to edit the NameVirtualHost directive in ports.conf. Otherwise, it took me about 3 hours in all to install the OS _and_ koha. (Downloads took a bit of time - I was downloading everything over a 512 Kbps connection). After all this, I now hear that somebody here (in Kerala - possibly a quasi-governmental organisation) is distributing a 2CD pack for installing Koha. One CD contains the OS (a live CD with option to install to the disk, presumably), and a CD containing Koha tarball. I am told that once the OS is installed, all the user needs to do is to pop in the CD and run a script, which will then do everything required. Hoo!!! -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://paivakil.blogspot.com The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. --William Penn