Hello, We're upgrading our current installation of Koha. We'd like to do it on a CentOS box. Most of our boxes are under RedHat or Fedora or CentOS. And I saw at some page of the wiki how to do it. My question is about the support status on CentOS. Someone told us that 99.9 % of Koha instances run on Debian (and derivatives) and it's absolutely unsure that it will run on CentOS or RedHat. Do you discourage using Koha on CentOS ? Just discourage ? Strongly discourage ? No support on CentOS ? Thanks for your answer. Regards José-Marcio -- Envoyé de ma machine à écrire. --------------------------------------------------------------- Spam : Classement statistique de messages électroniques - Une approche pragmatique Chez Amazon.fr : http://amzn.to/LEscRu ou http://bit.ly/SpamJM --------------------------------------------------------------- Jose Marcio MARTINS DA CRUZ http://www.j-chkmail.org Ecole des Mines de Paris http://bit.ly/SpamJM 60, bd Saint Michel 75272 - PARIS CEDEX 06
We are using koha on centos without any issues. Not sure about support. On Mar 12, 2015 9:52 PM, "Jose-Marcio Martins" < Jose-Marcio.Martins@mines-paristech.fr> wrote:
Hello,
We're upgrading our current installation of Koha.
We'd like to do it on a CentOS box. Most of our boxes are under RedHat or Fedora or CentOS.
And I saw at some page of the wiki how to do it.
My question is about the support status on CentOS.
Someone told us that 99.9 % of Koha instances run on Debian (and derivatives) and it's absolutely unsure that it will run on CentOS or RedHat.
Do you discourage using Koha on CentOS ? Just discourage ? Strongly discourage ? No support on CentOS ?
Thanks for your answer.
Regards
José-Marcio
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Greetings, The largest problem with running under a non-Debian-based distribution of Linux, such as RedHat variants, is support. The first headache you will encounter is installing the required libraries. Last I checked, it was around 18 or so of them require installation magic beyond a default installation on CentOS and/or Fedora. The second headache you will encounter is when you hit a problem, you may discover it is because of your non-Debian OS, because they did it differently that what the coders of Koha encountered using Debian-based OSes. Additionally, you may find only a few of people who use RedHat to run it, and they may or may not respond in a timely fashion to your problems. Debian, in particular, and Debian-based variations (Ubuntu is another popular one) are your best bet for finding support, and having a less painful installation. So is RedHat discouraged? Yes, why would we encourage headaches which we generally don't have the time to solve, because we mostly use Debian-based OSes? However, we believe in freedom, and if you wish to take on the mantle of pain, feel free. More power to you. :) For a more painful experience port it to run natively in Windows. ;) GPML, Mark Tompsett P.S. I did actually attempt the Windows, but gave up because the pain was worse than CentOS and Fedora. I only attempted them to see if it could be done, and yes, I was successful eventually. I don't recommend trying, unless you are seasoned Linux administrator.
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Mark Tompsett