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

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On Sat, 27 Nov 2004, MJ Ray wrote:

> 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.
libyaz is available at http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz.


 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
> 
> 
Kanwaljit dhindsa