[Koha] ANNOUNCE: Koha perl dependency RPMs for Red Hat 9

[Mike Hansen]

Hello,

	Unlike the installation of many other open source programs, Koha requires more than merely copying a handful of files to their proper location.  The complexity of a Koha installation arises from the fact that the installer has ot configure a number of different programs and get them to work together -- not from including "silly pretty pictures."  It has to check for and install the required Perl modules, locate the Apache configuration, modify it to work with Koha, get information regarding the installation of MySQL, connect to the MySQL server, create the necessary database and associated tables, etc.  It is not the simplest of processes.  We are only able to personally test it out of a small number of configurations.  That being said, I have done 4 Koha installs on three different operating systems and ran into no difficulty using the installer.

	I do not recall you submitting any bug reports at http://bugs.koha.org regarding the installer.  The devlopers are unable to devine any problems or errors that you might run encounter.  We rely on the feedback from users to work out any bugs.  It is just as much of your responsibility as it is ours to help out with bugs.  If you require assistance with the installation, you are always free to message us or stop by the IRC channel; just this last week, I did a remote install via SSH.

	I do not know the required modules off the top of my head; however, a quick glance at Install.pm informs me that they consist of the following:
	DBI
	Date::Manip
	DBD::mysql
	HTML::Template
	Digest::MD5
	MARC::Record
	Mail::Sendmail
	Net::Z3950
I hope that helps.

Mike

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 15:00:36 +1200
"Jones, Steven" <sjones08 at eds.com> wrote:

> I have to say this program is easily one of the worst to install Ive seen in
> 6 years of using open source.
> 
> Usually such a multitude of errors and omissions has been reserved for
> commerical software, I find it very disappointing that koha is proving such
> a time waste. I have also found OS installs generally as simple and reliable
> as commercial stuff if not usually better, due usually to extream simplicity
> with no silly pretty pictures.
> 
> I can live with a manual install, indeed so far a manual install has almost
> got me going where the auto install has failed badly. If the list of
> dependancies is available I can work throughthem and get running, at present
> I dont even seem to be able to do that!
> 
> regards
> 
> Steven
>