As Koha continues to grow in popularity it seems reasonable to assume there may be a corresponding increase in the number of Koha system administrators, specifically separate from developers. At some point if there is interest in starting a mailing list or a wiki section for system administrators maybe we should discuss it.

The following email discussing updates in Debian that I received on a different mailing list is one example of information that might be of interest to such a group.

Greg

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On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:10 AM, Richard Allen <rsaxvc@gmail.com> wrote:
Trying to upgrade an older debian squeeze install, aptitude tries very
hard 'resolving dependencies', eats 3+ gigs of ram, the machine fills
swap and thrashes until I kill it. Anyone else run into this issue?

I'm rather curious if it would've died earlier with a 32-bit kernel.


Richard,

Have you tried the upgrade with apt-get?  It's (again) the recommended package manager for Debian (as opposed to aptitude in Lenny)[1]:


Note

Although the aptitude command comes with rich features such as its enhanced package resolver, this complexity has caused (or may still causes) some regressions such as Bug #411123Bug #514930, and Bug #570377. In case of doubt, please use the apt-get and apt-cache commands over the aptitudecommand.



[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_literal_apt_get_literal_literal_apt_cache_literal_vs_literal_aptitude_literal 

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Chris


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