<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>I think there needs to be tighter Quality control on the releases.<BR>
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Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC<BR>
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Date:6/20/2002 4:34:41 PM US Mountain Standard Time<BR>
From:<A HREF="mailto:pate@eylerfamily.org">pate@eylerfamily.org</A><BR>
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On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Shane Williams wrote:<BR>
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> I've been watching Koha's progress for a couple of years now. I tried<BR>
> 1.04, had some install troubles (with CDK in particular) and put it on<BR>
> the backburner.<BR>
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Thanks for sticking with Koha.<BR>
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> In any case, I decided 1.20 was a good point to reassess things.<BR>
> Things are looking much better (thank you so much for the web<BR>
> interface, now I don't have to monkey with CDK). That said, I've had<BR>
> a number of problems with 1.20 as well. Looking at the recent list<BR>
> archive I can see that others are having trouble with 1.2.0 as well.<BR>
><BR>
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Yep, there are some issues with 1.2.0, a 1.2.1 release to fix the things<BR>
we've seen should be out shortly.<BR>
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> I just wanted to lay out a few of the problems I've had (some may be<BR>
> repititions of other's posts).<BR>
><BR>
> 1) Several links to koha.some.where/cgi-bin/koha/etc. that failed<BR>
> based on the example <VirtualHost> entries. My solution was to change<BR>
> my ScriptAlias entry in httpd.conf to:<BR>
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> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/koha/ /home/httpd/koha/cgi-bin/<BR>
> instead of:<BR>
> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/httpd/koha/cgi-bin/<BR>
><BR>
><BR>
> 2) On the members/index.html there's a link to members/results-add.html,<BR>
> but no such file exists.<BR>
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> 3) The other problem, which Pete mentioned in his "koha install problems<BR>
> on RH 7.2 MORE DATA" is that all but one of the scripts in<BR>
> koha/cgi-bin/admin/ have compilation problems. For instance, running<BR>
> perl -cw branches.pl leads to:<BR>
><BR>
> Scalar value @biblioitems[$x] better written as $biblioitems[$x] at<BR>
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux/C4/Reserves2.pm line 189,<BR>
> <KC> line 6.<BR>
> "my" variable $sth masks earlier declaration in same scope at<BR>
> branches.pl line 192, <KC> line 6.<BR>
> Too many arguments for C4::Output::mklink at branches.pl line 262,<BR>
> near "'')"<BR>
> branches.pl had compilation errors.<BR>
><BR>
><BR>
> 4) A few other notes. In the INSTALL file, there are a few confusing<BR>
> spots. One is that database name in all the mysql commands is Koha,<BR>
> but in the sample koha.conf file it's koha. Also, at least with perl<BR>
> 5.005 the -I option must come before the script name, so the command:<BR>
><BR>
> perl scripts/updater/updatedatabase -I /pathtoC4<BR>
> should probably read (and why not point to the pathtoC4 dir):<BR>
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> perl -I modules/ scripts/updater/updatedatabase<BR>
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> All in all though, things are looking good. Once the admin scripts<BR>
> get fixed up, I'll start showing it off to the folks here at the<BR>
> Library and Information Science School. Thanks for all the hard work.<BR>
><BR>
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Great! Please let us know how things go. And what we can do to help make<BR>
the presentation go more smoothly.<BR>
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-pate<BR>
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