On 20/05/2008, at 7:20 AM, BWS Johnson wrote:
Salvete!
This was pretty much my experience too. Ubuntu's little graphical package manager is quite handy for the debian package list, which you can import in.
I also note that the current thread "Problem installing Koha" has had a few ubuntu people in it, so it may not go swimmingly.
Yes, the synaptic package manager is a nice thing, indeed. It takes a moron like me and grants the power to install things with a click or too. I hope that eventually we attract someone that can jigger up one of them there packages for Koha. Unfortunately, they don't grow on trees.
Would not that then require some attempt to follow ubuntu/debian's file system rules? (ie, make it definitely different to all other Kohas) I suppose that's only the case if it wanted to get into the distribution. If it didn't need to comply to the FS rules then that would definitely be something to look into doing. Would the brave volunteer need also to find/make debianised/ubuntuised perl packages for the perl bits that still need installing by hand? or would it be possible to script in the installation through the perl shell? Mostly just thinking here. Haven't tried anything like this and unlikely to get the time soon to learn how to do it. -custard