[Koha] Installing Koha on debian 13 failed

[Michael Kuhn]

Hi

You wrote:

 > I had the choise to use version 12 or 13. I tried both. The results
 > are the same.

I'm not sure what your problem is.

1. What version of Koha do you try to install?

2. However, I just found out I had a very similar problem years ago when 
I tried to install Koha 21.11 and 22.05 on Debian GNU/Linux 11. See the 
following thread:

https://lists.koha-community.org/pipermail/koha-devel/2022-August/047246.html

The solution that eventually worked for me is described here:

https://lists.koha-community.org/pipermail/koha-devel/2022-August/047260.html

But maybe the other messages in the thread will also help.

Best wishes: Michael
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Am 17.03.26 um 16:30 schrieb Beda Szukics:
> Good evening
> 
> I tried to install Koha on a new debian based server. I failed because 
> rabbidmq-server couldn't be configured:
> 
> Setting up rabbitmq-server (4.0.5-6+deb13u2) ...
> Created symlink '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/rabbitmq- 
> server.service' → '/usr/lib/systemd/system/rabbitmq-server.service'.
> Job for rabbitmq-server.service failed because the control process 
> exited with error code.
> See "systemctl status rabbitmq-server.service" and "journalctl -xeu 
> rabbitmq-server.service" for details.
> invoke-rc.d: initscript rabbitmq-server, action "start" failed.
> ● rabbitmq-server.service - RabbitMQ Messaging Server
>       Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/rabbitmq-server.service; 
> enabled; preset: enabled)
>       Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Tue 
> 2026-03-17 16:15:56 CET; 18ms ago
>   Invocation: 1b25014fa7934c3d92e16dd4f22bd900
>      Process: 20645 ExecStart=/usr/lib/rabbitmq/bin/rabbitmq-server 
> (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
>     Main PID: 20645 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
>       Status: "Standing by"
>     Mem peak: 69.5M
>          CPU: 854ms
> dpkg: error processing package rabbitmq-server (--configure):
>   installed rabbitmq-server package post-installation script subprocess 
> returned error exit status 1
> 
> 
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of koha-common:
>   koha-common depends on rabbitmq-server; however:
>    Package rabbitmq-server is not configured yet.
> 
> dpkg: error processing package koha-common (--configure):
>   dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> 
> 
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>   rabbitmq-server
>   koha-common
> Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> 
> What went wrong? How to fix?
> 
> 
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