[Koha] Koha installation

[paul POULAIN]

Sarah Jordan wrote:

>The computer will be dedicated to the catalogue, so I
>was planning to ditch Windows and install Linux
>instead. I have another basic question - is Linux,
>Perl, My SQL etc installation a big deal? I have not
>succeeded in getting this stuff to work on my home
>machine - but cannot get rid of windows and needed to
>partition etc. That should not be an issue for the
>library.
>
>Thanks for your quick response, Sarah.
>
If your computer is a recent one, it should be easy. I work with 
Mandrake, and never had big problems installing it (mostly mouse clics 
!) on recent PC (less than 2 years).
When installing mandrake, you can (must for koha) add perl and mysql 
packages, which is more long than hard if you don't know where to 
search. You should do a "expert" installation, and choose packages 
individually.
Still on mandrake, you can now resize windows partitions, thus 
installing linux and keeping perl on your home machine.

Hope This Helps

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GNU/Linux Mandrake 9.0 is really a nice distro
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Paul