Hi there, This is Raimund from ThoughtWorks Manchester. We're looking at adding a management system to our little office library, mainly with the view of adding electronic checkout capabilities - we're a Tech company highly interested in all things that have to do with little sensors etc., so this seems like a reasonable project which could actually show off some ideas to our clients in the future. We already have some capability on the sensor side, but I don't want to write an inventory system from scratch. A librarian friend of mine pointed me to Koha, and I played around with the demo on the web - quite impressive. My next step would be to try it out in combination with sticking a tag into a few of our books - for now on my dev machine (a Mac). Now I understand from the website that Koha usually runs on some flavour of Linux, preferably Debian. So I tried several things: - Setting up a Debian Virtual Box and installing everything there. Turned into a lot of pain, probably because I didn't find a good raw Debian image to start with. - Tried the same with CentOS. I actually got much further, but then I noticed that I didn't understand the Koha installation itself. - I stumbled upon the Docker image <https://hub.docker.com/r/digibib/koha/> from the Oslo Public Library. For my purposes, this sounds ideal; however, it doesn't seem to work out of the box. When I start it and point my browser to localhost:8080 or 8081, all I get is a HTTP 500; the logs indicate that the DB isn't set up properly: ==> /var/log/koha/name/plack-error.log <== DBD::mysql::db do failed: Table 'koha_name.systempreferences' doesn't exist [for Statement " SELECT * FROM systempreferences WHERE 1 = 0 "] at /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Database.pm line 93. DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Table 'koha_name.systempreferences' doesn't exist [for Statement "SELECT `me`.`variable`, `me`.`value`, `me`.`options`, `me`.`explanation`, `me`.`type` FROM `systempreferences` `me` WHERE ( `me`.`variable` = ? )" with ParamValues: 0='casauthentication'] at /usr/share/perl5/DBIx/Class/Storage/DBI.pm line 1832. DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Table 'koha_name.systempreferences' doesn't exist [for Statement "SELECT `me`.`variable`, `me`.`value`, `me`.`options`, `me`.`explanation`, `me`.`type` FROM `systempreferences` `me` WHERE ( `me`.`variable` = ? )" with ParamValues: 0='caslogout'] at /usr/share/perl5/DBIx/Class/Storage/DBI.pm line 1832. DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Table 'koha_name.systempreferences' doesn't exist [for Statement "SELECT `me`.`variable`, `me`.`value`, `me`.`options`, `me`.`explanation`, `me`.`type` FROM `systempreferences` `me` WHERE ( `me`.`variable` = ? )" with ParamValues: 0='casserverurl'] at /usr/share/perl5/DBIx/Class/Storage/DBI.pm line 1832. - Finally I tried the Vagrant based kohadevbox <https://github.com/digibib/kohadevbox> (from Oslo as well). That won't even start for me: TASK [Update apt cache if needed] ********************************************** fatal: [jessie]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "'/usr/bin/apt-get dist-upgrade' failed: E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/.\n", "rc": 100, "stdout": "Reading package lists...\nBuilding dependency tree...\nReading state information...\nThe following NEW packages will be installed:\n firmware-linux-free irqbalance libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data libnuma1\n linux-image-3.16.0-5-amd64 shared-mime-info xdg-user-dirs\nThe following packages will be upgraded:\n bind9-host dnsutils exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light\n gcc-4.9-base host isc-dhcp-client isc-dhcp-common libbind9-90\n libcurl3-gnutls libdns-export100 libdns100 libgcc1 libicu52 libirs-export91\n libisc-export95 libisc95 libisccc90 libisccfg-export90 libisccfg90\n liblwres90 libssl1.0.0 libstdc++6 libtiff5 libxml2 linux-image-amd64 openssl\n perl perl-base perl-modules sensible-utils\n33 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.\nNeed to get 60.6 MB of archives.\nAfter this operation, 182 MB of additional disk space will be used.\n", "stdout_lines": ["Reading package lists...", "Building dependency tree...", "Reading state information...", "The following NEW packages will be installed:", " firmware-linux-free irqbalance libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data libnuma1", " linux-image-3.16.0-5-amd64 shared-mime-info xdg-user-dirs", "The following packages will be upgraded:", " bind9-host dnsutils exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light", " gcc-4.9-base host isc-dhcp-client isc-dhcp-common libbind9-90", " libcurl3-gnutls libdns-export100 libdns100 libgcc1 libicu52 libirs-export91", " libisc-export95 libisc95 libisccc90 libisccfg-export90 libisccfg90", " liblwres90 libssl1.0.0 libstdc++6 libtiff5 libxml2 linux-image-amd64 openssl", " perl perl-base perl-modules sensible-utils", "33 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.", "Need to get 60.6 MB of archives.", "After this operation, 182 MB of additional disk space will be used."]} At this point, I'm happy to receive any help. Ideally, I'd like to get the Docker image to work. (Should I have sent this to the wrong mailing list, please let me know. Since I'm not planning to do any development on Koha itself, I still view myself as a user; but please let me know if my understanding is wrong.) Kind regards Raimund Klein -- Raimund Klein Technical Lead Email rklein@thoughtworks.com Telephone +447941061959 [image: ThoughtWorks] <http://www.thoughtworks.com/?utm_campaign=raimund-klein-signature&utm_medium=email&utm_source=thoughtworks-email-signature-generator>