[Koha] Installing KOHA on Debian/No administrative no admistartive rights !!

[MJ Ray]

On 2004-11-26 19:04:26 +0000 Adalid Ortiz <adalid at tij.uia.mx> wrote:

> Any procedure about installing KOHA with no root account. Need to 
> install 
> Perl modules required by Koha.

Two ways. The first one, with a shell account, is far easier:

Make yourself a perl directory. Run "perl -MCPAN -e shell" and step 
through the config, setting PREFIX=/home/youruser/perl as the 
MakeMaker variable. Alternatively, copy the system CPAN config file to 
the other location the error tells you and edit all the directory 
names, then run "perl -MCPAN -e shell". Install the perl modules you 
want (command "install MARC::Record") or whatever.

The problem you will probably have is with Net::Z3950 which requires 
libyaz. If you want that, I hope someone else will give instructions. 
Fortunately, when I've been installing, the sysadmin has installed 
packages like that.

Next, set PERL5LIB=/home/youruser/perl/lib (or something like that), 
export PERL5LIB and then run the installer, setting your etcdir and 
prefix. The command will be something like 
"etcdir=/home/youruser/kohaetc prefix=/home/youruser/koha perl 
installer.pl"

Afterwards, you are almost certainly going to need to edit the 
koha-httpd.conf and probably other stuff too. Every time that I have 
done this, this bit has been slighly different, so I can't give good 
general instructions. Basically, get all the system information that 
you can and keep the manuals open on screen while working. You really 
need to be able to read the access and error logs to stand any chance 
of debugging it quickly.


The second way, without a shell account, is to set up a local debian 
machine that is as close to being identical to the server, do the 
above on it and then copy the files across. That's even trickier and 
I've only done it once.


I hope that helps you get started. The above may seem tricky, but it's 
not much different to installing any complicated perl program without 
root access. There are probably articles on perl sites or about other 
applications with more detail like 
http://www.wellho.net/forum/Perl-Programming/CPAN-Module-without-root.html 
or http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/2.18/html/nonroot.html

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