I have had a version of Koha running on my home Suse system working for some time. I do recall, however, that I did have difficulties in installing it, mainly in relation to the z3950 stuff and Mysql. I have been trying over the last few days to instal a system on a remote virtual machine (from http://bytemark.co.uk ). This gives me full root access to a Debian instalation. When I ran ./installer.pl for the first time I got the usual errors about Yaz and the Net::z3950 modules and various perl modules. I eventually got Yaz unstalled with the help of the nice people at indexdata: they told me that the latest Debian versions already include yaz but my version seemed not to. With a bit of luck all distros will include it soon. The Net and other Perl modules eventually installed from CPAN. I also made alterations to httpd.conf (Apache 1.3) by uncommenting mod_env and mod_include. Before starting I had ensured that MySql was working: mysql -p -u root produces a request for my pw and when I enter it I get the mysql prompt. However the installer does not like mysql. I get the following error messages: (typed rather than copied since I am writing from a differnt machine.) Creating the Mysql database ... ERROR 1062 at line 1: Duplicate entry 'localhost-kohaadmin' for key 1 256 ERROR 1062 at line 1: Duplicate entry '%-Koha-kohaadmin' for key 1 /usr/bin/mysqladmin: command to server at 'localhost' failed error 'access denied for user: kohaadmin@localhost' (using password 'YES')' ERROR CREATING Database Could not connect to Mysql server [Then] DBI connect ('koha:localhost','kohaadmin',...) failed: Access denied for user 'Kohaadmin@localhost (Using PW: YES) at /usr/local ...C4/Context.pm line 408 Cannot call method 'prepare' on undefined value at scripts/updater/updatedatabase line 876 etc Mysql on this machine *does* seem to be pernickety about how one logs on. ie mysql -p -u root produces a prompt for the password while mysql -u root -p="mypw" (or --password="mypw") claims that root@localhost cannot access the db. Any suggestions? A small suggestion: would it be possible to make text entered into the installer editable? It is annoying to make a typo and not to be able to correct it. Roger -- Roger Horne, 11 New Square, Lincoln's Inn, London WC2A 3QB mailto:roger@hrothgar.co.uk http://hrothgar.co.uk/YAWS/