[Koha] Help with installation on fedora 8

[Joshua Ferraro]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:29 AM, BWS Johnson
<mhelman at illinoisalumni.org> wrote:
>
>  Salvete!
>
>
>  >> I was hoping to solve my library problem with an existing application.
>  >> It is not a full professional library application that is required here,
>  >> but from the experience I have had with working installations I give my
>  >> congratulations to developers for a good application. If I was running a
>  >> professional full scale library with a dedicated server, then Koha would
>  >> be a good choice.
>  >>
>  >> However I have spent a total of well over 300 hours trying to get an
>  >> installation that I am happy with. In hindsight I would have been well
>  >> towards an application that would have served my needs if I had put that
>  >> time into my own application rather than getting involved in Koha.
>  >Well, IMO that's not a particularly helpful attitude; there are a lot
>  >of hard-working
>  >folks in this community, and we don't happen to know much about your
> favorite
>  >flavor of LInux. For what it's worth, I just discovered the following
>  >French document
>  >for how to install Koha on Fedora:
>
>
>  He didn't say otherwise, Josh. He *complimented* the developers, which I
> tend to think is a great attitude. :)
>  Installation issues - particularly with this problem - are not an unusual
> complaint in the least - it's a pain to install, plain and simple. The
> dependencies ought to be bundled together to make this a one, two, three
> process. If it's the case that LibLime doesn't want to make for an easy
> installation for financial interests, that's fine. But Fedora is not a
> strange distro in the least, nor is the complaint that it's too hard to
> install far afield.
Well, we wrote both the installer and the INSTALL and INSTALL.debian
files, and that was work that we contributed without any client sponsorship.
Our goal has been to make the installation process as easy as possible,
we have no financial interest in making it hard.

Koha is brain-dead easy to install on Debian, there's a step by step guide
available here, written by yours truly:

http://git.koha.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=Koha;a=blob;f=INSTALL.debian;h=1c35e8098c561f3f563b9c8f5f7e5844c60cdab5;hb=HEAD

As far as bundling the dependencies, that steps beyond our (LibLime) domain of
knowledge, and we don't have the resources to devote to it -- even for Debian,
hough some have talked about it, and I think it's a wonderful idea.

Fedora isn't a strange distro, I totally agree; but we (LibLime) don't use it,
and we don't know how to install Koha on it, so we would be of much use
contributing a document or bundling of the dependencies on it.

Anyone on the list (or the dev list which I've CCed) have experience
and interest
in contributing packages for Debian, RHEL, Fedora, Mandriva, Gentoo, or any
other distros?

Cheers,

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