I have tried both methods as suggested on http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_Ubuntu. My first installation was from source. It didn't work so I removed it and tried packages. I have tried 3.8, 3.10 and 3.11, and I have followed the instructions. Nothing really worked. At one time an installation seemed OK, but I couldn't search and find the books in my library, and since then, nothing has worked. Could it be that there are to many config-files over the place, that are not removed, when I uninstall koha? -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Best-way-to-install-koha-in-ubuntu-12-04-t... Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Hi, On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:06 PM, davidlamhauge <davidlamhauge@gmail.com> wrote:

I have tried both methods as suggested on http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_Ubuntu.

You really need to describe it better, than just say it is not working. For example, is apt-get install koha-common failing to complete. If so, have you tried apt-get -f install? Or is the web-installer not working for you? -- Indranil Das Gupta Phone : +91-98300-20971 Blog : http://indradg.randomink.org/blog IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Please exchange editable Office documents only in ODF Format. No other format is acceptable. Support Open Standards. For a free editor supporting ODF, please visit LibreOffice - http://www.documentfoundation.org

2) I tried installing koha-common from packages using of the guides. I couldn't get an instance working. Again I uninstalled.

"Couldn't get an instance working" is very vague. It would have been good to ask questions on the mailing list or on IRC at this stage of the game.

Everything seemed to work, but - there were no books, when I searched for them!

This is a very common installation problem. There's even a FAQ entry for it: http://koha-community.org/documentation/faq/#qa-faq24 I'm not sure what kind of cleanup you might need to do at this point but it's worth reiterating that the packages are the best way to install Koha. -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org

Hi On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:27 PM, davidlamhauge <davidlamhauge@gmail.com> wrote:

I couldn't get it working, because I followed the instuctions, and when I was supposed to finish installation via the web-installer, there was none.

can you paste the output of `/usr/sbin/apache2ctl -S` ? -- Indranil Das Gupta Phone : +91-98300-20971 Blog : http://indradg.randomink.org/blog IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Please exchange editable Office documents only in ODF Format. No other format is acceptable. Support Open Standards. For a free editor supporting ODF, please visit LibreOffice - http://www.documentfoundation.org

Greetings, Packages are the best way to go: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_ubuntu_-_packages You have three hurdles to jump when doing the installation, four if you count installation of Ubuntu. 1) Editing files. People new to Linux aren't familiar with how to edit files. 2) Apache configuration. Koha can install either in a named hosts way or a non-named hosts way. If you got the OPAC client when you thought you were supposed to get the staff client, the symptom is based on Apache's handling of a non-Apache configuration issue. There are some simple things the #koha IRC channel (http://koha-community.org/support/ scroll down to the IRC chat area and click here) can help with. 3) Zebra configuration. Packages generally have it working so you just have to wait a while and the entries should show up -- if you wait an hour and nothing shows up, then there is a problem. However, people on the IRC channel can help you with if you don't try to solve your problems first (fresh clean installs are easier to debug). In short, chat with the #koha IRC channel (http://koha-community.org/support/ scroll down to the IRC chat area and click here) during installation, and then perhaps near the end of the install have your system administrator/network administrator handy. :) GPML, Mark Tompsett

Hello all, Please refer below website for live DVD of koha, it has been installed with ubuntu packages install instruction successfully so pls keep trying again and again the problem may be due to net connectivity or wrong addresses while using commands. http://sourceforge.net/projects/vkmkoha/files/ On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:18:47 +0530 wrote

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:06 PM, davidlamhauge wrote:

I have tried both methods as suggested on

http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_Ubuntu.

You really need to describe it better, than just say it is not working. For example, is apt-get install koha-common failing to complete. If so, have you tried apt-get -f install? Or is the web-installer not working for you? -- Indranil Das Gupta Phone :+91-98300-20971 Blog : http://indradg.randomink.org/blog IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter :indradg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Please exchange editable Office documents only in ODF Format. No other format is acceptable. Support Open Standards. For a free editor supporting ODF, please visit LibreOffice - http://www.documentfoundation.org _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha With regards, Vinod Kumar Mishra, Senior Library Information Assistant, Saharanpur Campus Library, IIT Roorkee, Mob:91+9455306495 91+9198539740 email: vinod_librarian@rediffmail.com : mishravk79@gmail.com