[Koha] koha 2.0.0pre4 is out

[MJ Ray]

On 2003-09-25 06:35:19 +0100 Tim Bell <bhat at trinity.unimelb.edu.au> 
wrote:
> My first problem was that I started installing 2.0.0pre4 using the
> instructions from quick-start.html, which I only later realised was 
> for

Entered as http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=620

> Having thrown out my first attempt, I then tried again using
> installer.pl, which was much more successful, and I didn't encounter 
> any
> major difficulties.  (By the way, I'm installing onto a Debian 
> system.)

For debian, all except Net::Z3950 and MARC::Record are in packages, I 
think.

> I did however encounter problems finding the documentation.  Having
> unpacked koha-2.0.0pre4.tar.gz, I found the "docs" directory was 
> empty.

I am told that the docs are in CVS.  Maybe someone knows why they 
didn't get into pre4?

>   DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Column 'z3950random' cannot be null 
> at
>   /home/koha/intranet/modules/C4/Breeding.pm line 115, 
> <fh00001stevens>
>   line 26.

I am aware of this bug and the other one.  I guess you use MARC21?  I 
will squash this and possibly the misreported result in the next 48 
hours.

> prompted me to realise that I needed the processz3950queue daemon 
> running.
> That didn't seem to have been configured properly by the install 
> script,

I need someone to explain the purpose and configuration of this daemon 
to me before I can update the installer to handle it.  I am also 
interested in debugging z3950 searches, but I can't without that info.

> I was able to manually catalogue a book using addbiblio.pl, but since
> I'm not a librarian, I probably got the MARC quite wrong.  Still, I 
> was
> able to successfully search for the book by author, so it seems my 
> Koha
> installation is at least a little bit functional.

If you are using MARC21, it seems that you have to go into Parameters 
-> MARC tag structure -> subfields -> Open and change a lot of the 
"tab numbers" for MARC tags from -1 to something between 0 and 9.

> wait until the proper 2.0.0 release to try again.  I hope that there
> might be something useful in what I've provided above to help improve
> Koha.

Do you mind if I contact you directly when I think a particular 2.0 
prerelease addresses your problems?

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