Hi! Thank you very much for this suggestion! I will evaluate if this solution is possible with my hosting provider. Thanks a lot and have a nice day! Alessandro Il giorno ven 15 apr 2022 alle ore 13:06 C.S. Hayward < c.s.hayward@protonmail.com> ha scritto:

Are you familiar with VirtualBox and VMware?

VirtualBox (https://virtualbox.org) and VMware ( https://www.vmware.com/products/workstation-player.html) will let you run any Windows or Linux operating system as a guest under any Windows, Linux, or (with a different download, https://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/fusion-evaluation.html) Mac host, natively installed operating system.

More specifically, it will let you run Debian under AlmaLinux, and VirtualBox will do it without a paid license.

(I am running Debian under VirtualBox on Windows 10 because my manufacturer did something silly about UEFI and Safe Boot.)

Unless you have been forbidden to run Koha on a guest operating system, I would encourage you to explore running Koha on Debian on a virtual machine hosted under AlmaLinux (or some other host operating system).

HTH,

Br. C.S. Hayward

------- Original Message ------- On Thursday, April 14th, 2022 at 3:02 AM, Alessandro Tedesco alessandrotedesco@seminario.milano.it wrote:

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Hi Joel,

thank you for your suggestions!

I am aware of the RedHat vs Debian issue related to Koha, but unfortunately I am obliged to use AlmaLinux. Precisely for this reason I was wondering if anyone had had any direct experience of installing Koha on Red-Had (and in particular on AlmaLinux).

Regarding Docker, would you recommend a few in particular?

Thanks a lot and have a nice day! Alessandro

Il giorno mer 13 apr 2022 alle ore 18:59 Coehoorn, Joel jcoehoorn@york.edu

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One thing to understand here is, while there are many linux distributions, they mostly fall into two main families: RedHat -based and Debian -based.

Koha work is mainly done in Debian -based platforms. AlmaLinux is RedHat -based. It should still be possible to make it work, but it is not going to be as easy or simple.

Your best option might be a container (Docker) installation, which can help smooth over some of the dependency and platform differences. But even then I would not expect to be successful unless I really knew linux well.

Joel Coehoorn Director of Information Technology York College of Nebraska

On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 7:48 AM Alessandro Tedesco < alessandrotedesco@seminario.milano.it> wrote:

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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!

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