Koha 3.0.6 (Community Ed.) on FreeBSD
Hi All, We are currently attempting to install Koha 3.0.6 (Community edition) on a Development server. Our Library's Systems Support & Development Officer is currently trying to install Koha 3.0.6 on a Development Server which is running the FreeBSD v7.2 Operating System, and has come across a slight problem with CPAN. At present, the install is unable to proceed because CPAN is unable to find the pre-requisite files. See attached document [Pasted_Data_467e.txt]. Is there away to set CPAN to be able to automatically download and install these files during the process of installing Koha, so that each file and its dependencies don't have to be downloaded and installed separately from the CPAN website? Also, on a final note, is there any library's out there which have Koha 3.0.6 installed on a server running the FreeBSD Operating System? If so, I would greatly appreciate hearing from you about any problems your library may have had during the process of installing Koha. Many thanks in anticipation! Kindest Regards, Joel Joel Harbottle Library Technician Library Services (Tasmania) Email: Joel.Harbottle@hotmail.com.au Please ignore the Hotmail Web Advertisement(s) below:
2010/8/3 Joel Harbottle <joel.harbottle@hotmail.com.au>
Hi All,
We are currently attempting to install Koha 3.0.6 (Community edition) on a Development server.
Just for future reference: There is no such thing as Koha Community edition. There is Koha and then there is Harley and LLEK. So you are working with Koha. Not to be ugly, but this has become a problem over the last 6 months or so.
Our Library's Systems Support & Development Officer is currently trying to install Koha 3.0.6 on a Development Server which is running the FreeBSD v7.2 Operating System, and has come across a slight problem with CPAN.
At present, the install is unable to proceed because CPAN is unable to find the pre-requisite files. See attached document [Pasted_Data_467e.txt]. Is there away to set CPAN to be able to automatically download and install these files during the process of installing Koha, so that each file and its dependencies don't have to be downloaded and installed separately from the CPAN website?
The "problem" is not with CPAN but rather that the installer is giving you a list of Perl modules required which are not installed. You now need to look through the list and then do "cpan <module 1> <module 2> .... <module n>" where <module 1> is something like Foo::Bar and so forth. You should install these either by sudo or as root. This is normal for Perl applications.
Also, on a final note, is there any library's out there which have Koha 3.0.6 installed on a server running the FreeBSD Operating System? If so, I would greatly appreciate hearing from you about any problems your library may have had during the process of installing Koha.
Search the list archives, I think a few have used FreeBSD. Kind Regards, Chris
Joel, I successfully installed a Koha 3.2 beta on FreeBSD, but I can't say I'd recommend it. It was a bit of a struggle getting it set up. You can see the instructions I wrote (which seem to work) on the wiki here: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_FreeBSD The text document you copied in looks like the output from the Koha installer rather than error messages from CPAN, incidentally. A lot of those can be installed by running cpan, as chris_n describes, but you will need to install some from FreeBSD ports. All of this should be covered in the link I provided above. There will still be a few error messages at the end, but they are non-fatal. I ultimately decided to switch to Debian because of the awesome Debian packages that larsw and robin put together. Regards, Jared Camins-Esakov On 8/3/2010 9:00 AM, Joel Harbottle wrote:
Hi All,
We are currently attempting to install Koha 3.0.6 (Community edition) on a Development server.
Our Library's Systems Support & Development Officer is currently trying to install Koha 3.0.6 on a Development Server which is running the FreeBSD v7.2 Operating System, and has come across a slight problem with CPAN.
At present, the install is unable to proceed because CPAN is unable to find the pre-requisite files. See attached document [Pasted_Data_467e.txt]. Is there away to set CPAN to be able to automatically download and install these files during the process of installing Koha, so that each file and its dependencies don't have to be downloaded and installed separately from the CPAN website?
Also, on a final note, is there any library's out there which have Koha 3.0.6 installed on a server running the FreeBSD Operating System? If so, I would greatly appreciate hearing from you about any problems your library may have had during the process of installing Koha.
Many thanks in anticipation!
Kindest Regards, Joel
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On 8/3/2010 8:00 AM, Joel Harbottle wrote:
At present, the install is unable to proceed because CPAN is unable to find the pre-requisite files...
As a long-time FreeBSD user, I would strongly recommend that you use the FreeBSD ports system to install Perl modules, whenever possible. Only use CPAN if there is no native port for the module that you need. If the module you want is named Foo::Thingy, the port will likely be named p5-Foo-Thingy, and can be located in the ports tree thusly: cd /usr/ports make search name=Foo-Thingy -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) <gregb at scls.lib.wi.us>, (608) 242-4716
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