[Koha] New to list....looking for info on E-smith/SME and Koha

[Joshua Ferraro]

Hi David,

I'm not sure about the RPM, but I have installed Koha on several Debian 3.0 (Woody) machines with pretty good success.  Perl, Apache, Mysql, and most of the perl modules are already packaged into the stable branch and there are only a couple of simple steps to install the remaining dependencies.

If you have an "always on" internet connection, I recommend trying out the LordSutch.com ISOLINUX mini-ISO image for your architecture.  You can get the iso at: http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/debian=cd/
Use the woody-i386-1.iso for an x86 architecture. You can boot off the CD, install using most of the defaults, and use apt-get for almost everything else.

Here are the steps to installing Koha on a running Debian system:

Install Dependencies:
	
apt-get install perl
"" apache
"" mysql-server
"" libdbi-perl
"" libdbd-mysql-perl
"" libdate-manip-perl
"" libhtml-template-perl
"" libmail-sendmail-perl
 
edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add the following to the top of the file (btw, jed is a great text editor, apt-get install jed):

deb http://www.indexdata.dk/debian indexdata/woody released
deb-src http://www.indexdata.dk/debian indexdata/woody released

type 
apt-get update 

to update your package manager's source list (you may need to do it twice)
apt-get install yaz
apt-get install libyaz-dev

also some C language packages are needed:

apt-get install gcc
apt-get install libc6-dev

CPAN: this is the most difficult part of the installation.  The first time you wuse CPAN you will need to configure it.  The default choices should work fine, though you may need to add a list of CPAN sources (can be found on the CPAN site: www.cpan.org).  Some of the programs CPAN uses to grab files are not installed by default on Debian, however, all of them are packaged into the stable branch, and are pretty easy to get.  Off the top of my head: wget, ftp, gzip, unzip, lynx, ncftp.  there are probably a few others too, but you can install them and run the configuration of CPAN again.  I should note that when you install the programs they will run from /usr/bin/ rather than /bin, and you may need to specify that durring the configuration.  

After you configure CPAN, install Event, Net::Z3950, and MARC::Record thusly:
perl -MCPAN -e 'install "Event"'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install "Net::Z3950"'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install "MARC::Record"'