[Koha] Installing Koha on LInux Mint VERSION="18.1 (Serena)"

[Daniel F. Twum]

Hi Zeno,

Finally I can declare success installing Koha on Linux Mint.  Please see attached screenshot. 

Creating the database was a bit of a challenge since the installer.pl kept timing out. I had to increase Timeout in the /etc/apache2/apache2.conf to 
 myusbpc-XPS-8700 koha_ofosualibrary # grep Timeout /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
# Timeout: The number of seconds before receives and sends time out.
Timeout 6000

Thanks for your help. 

regards,
--Daniel



On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 15:49:06 +0100, Tajoli Zeno  wrote:

Hi Daniel,

Il 25/02/2017 15:32, Daniel F. Twum  ha scritto:
>My first attempt at installing Koha on Linux Mint has encountered the 
following issues:
>
> myusbpc at myusbpc-XPS-8700 ~/Downloads/koha-16.11.00 $ sudo apt-get install koha-common
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Unable to locate package koha-common
>
> I am following the instructions https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_ubuntu_-_packages
> Here is the history of what I did:
>   513  echo deb http://debian.koha-community.org/koha stable main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/koha.list
>   514  ll /etc/apt/sources.list.d/koha.list
>   515  cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/koha.list
>   516  wget -O- http://debian.koha-community.org/koha/gpg.asc | sudo apt-key add -
>   517  sudo apt-get install koha-common
>

the problem is that after 516
 >516  wget -O- http://debian.koha-community.org/koha/gpg.asc | sudo 
apt-key add -

you try to install koha-common
 >   517  sudo apt-get install koha-common

The correct sequence is:
wget -O- http://debian.koha-community.org/koha/gpg.asc | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install koha-common


I suggest you to read all web page 
https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_ubuntu_-_packages before to 
continue

Remeber that your version of Linux Mint uses MySQL 5.7 so check this 
paragraph:

https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_ubuntu_-_packages#Ubuntu_16.04_and_MySQL_5.7

Generaly speaking use Linux Mint only if you know it very well.
Koha is tested on Debian and Ubuntu, we probaly have very little 
experience on Linux Mint.

Bye
Zeno Tajoli













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