[Koha] [EXTERNAL] Re: Red Hat 8, installing dependencies

[Bales (US), Tasha R]

If the pain is great, we may be able to argue for an Ubuntu installation (Debian is less likely).  Oracle Linux is another alternative that may be available, FWIW.


Tasha R. Bales

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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<mailto: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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