[Koha] Re: Woes and tribulations...

[Rachel Hamilton-Williams]

HI

Apologies Pierrick, I hadn't realised that your message was just sent to me, I 
thought it was too the list.

I am not a technical person at all and would just have recommended that you 
ask your question on list where all the helpful people are.


Cheers
Rachel



> On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Pierrick wrote:
> 
> > Hi Pate
> 
> Hello Pierrick,
> I'm forwarding this to the koha list because you'll get far better answers
> from the list than you would from Rachel and I.
> 
> >
> > I have reached a bit of an impasses with the install of Koha. I have already
> > sent a message to Rachel but I haven't received anything back yet.
> >
> > I am trying an installation of Koha on a RedHat 7.2 box.
> > I am doing the manual install so I can monitor (and possibly even
> > understand) what's going on and I've reached a point of impasse:
> >
> 
> Please understand that the manual installation is *much* more
> difficult/error prone than the install script.  In the future, we will be
> deprecating the manual method.
> 
> 
> > In item 6 - Update your database tables
> > When I issue the command: perl updatedatabase -I /mypathtoC4
> > I constantly get the following message:
> > "Can't locate C4/Database.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0
> > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
> > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at updatedatabase line 22.
> > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at updatadatabase line 22"
> >
> 
> This error means that your include path doesn't include the C4 directory
> and the modules that it contains.  The best way to deal with this is to
> add the path to your C4 directory to your include path.
> 
> > Now
> > Database.pm is located in: /home/downloads/koha-1.2.2/modules/C4
> > so I issue: perl updatedatabase -I /home/downloads/koha-1.2.2/modules
> > or:         perl updatedatabase -I /home/downloads/koha-1.2.2/modules/C4
> > (both give the same error.)
> > My guess is that I am missing a perl module, but I have loaded:
> > mysql-3.23.41-1 (came with my RedHat disto)
> > perl-DBI-1.18-1
> > perl-DateManip-5.40
> > perl-DBD-MySQL-1.2216-4
> > perl-Set-Scalar-1.17
> >
> > I actually tried to manually perform the tasks in the script
> > "updatedatabase" (create tables, etc) but I'm not sure about some of the
> > things it actually does...
> >
> > Any idea?
> >
> > Then in Item 7, I am not sure which files to copy and where and what the
> > directory structure should be. I assume I should follow the directory
> > structure listed in "Installation without Virtual Hosts"?
> >
> 
> That would be the easiest way to do it.
> 
> 
> -pate
> 
> > Regards from New Zealand
> >
> > Pierre
> >
> >
> >  WISYWYG Data
> >  pierre at wysiwyg-data.co.nz
> >  64-7-868-9806
> >
> 
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