[Koha] Red Hat 8, installing dependencies

[Christian McDonald]

Are you required to deploy on RHEL? The debian repo makes installing on
Debian painless.

On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 4:38 PM Bales (US), Tasha R <
tasha.r.bales at boeing.com> wrote:

> Good afternoon,
>
> I'm trying to install the latest version of Koha on Red Hat 8.1, using the
> Koha Wiki instructions<
> https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_Redhat_Enterprise_6> for Red
> Hat 6.  Perhaps you can help with a couple questions.
>
> First, the Wiki contains a list of about 70 dependencies that should be
> installed before Koha. Since the Wiki article is dated, is there a method
> for determining whether this list is still accurate for Red Hat 8 and
> current Koha?  Or, would one just need to be on the lookout for inevitable
> errors and complaints about missing dependencies?
>
> Next, I'm limited to working with a corporate repository-I cannot connect
> to the internet--but I was able to install all but 11 of the recommended
> packages, see below.  I don't necessarily know that all of these are
> critical requirements, but some of them seem significant when I Googled
> them for more info.  They are as follows:
>
>
> *              cloog-ppl
>
> *              ghostscript-devel (I have the non-devel package)
>
> *              gnome-utils-libs (I don't think we need this)
>
> *              ImageMagick
>
> *              ImageMagick-devel
>
> *              Imake (May not need this)
>
> *              jasper-devel (We have jasper-libs)
>
> *              lcms-devel
>
> *              libXdmcp-devel
>
> *              libxml2-python
>
> *              ppl
>
> If you can advise where I ought to look to gain an understanding of
> whether these missing packages are 1) true requirements for Koha 20.x,
> given I obtained them from an older Wiki article; 2) show-stoppers that
> will prevent using Koha, or certain features of Koha, if they are not
> present.
>
> I appreciate and thank you in advance for any advice you may have.  I am
> doing a good amount of research on the web to try to answer my own
> questions, but I'm a bit out of my league.  Thanks for your time and
> consideration,
>
>
> Tasha R. Bales
>
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