[Koha] [Fwd: Re: Koha Virtual Appliance]

[Rachel Hamilton-Williams]

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Subject: Re: Koha Virtual Appliance
Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 08:03:58 -0500
From: Jim Kronebusch <jim at winonacotter.org>
To: rachel at katipo.co.nz
References: <20070503163730.M30916 at winonacotter.org> 
<463A8553.9010108 at katipo.co.nz>

On Fri, 04 May 2007 12:58:59 +1200, Rachel Hamilton-Williams wrote
> Hi Jim,
> 
> i'll forward your suggestion to the Koha lists (regular and developer). 
> It sounds like a good idea, and we've had Koha easier to install in the 
> past as part of Debian, but of course every time Koha changes you have 
> to do a new one.
> 
> I suspect all the project needs to do this, is someone keen to do it.
> 
> Cheers
> Rachel

Thanks for your response.  There always seems to be some problems with 
compatibility
when either Debian or Koha has an update.  If a virtual machine was 
created and
distributed by the developers every time Koha was updated it sure could 
make life easier
on the end users.  And building a virtual machine under VMware isn't 
much different than
building a standard server, so it shouldn't take much extra expertise, 
just a desire to
do so.  If this was done the end user would have a pre-built Koha server 
ready to go.
All they would need is some instruction of which .conf files to modify 
for their
personal domain and how to change passwords.  This could make things 
much less technical
for the end user, and who better to gather and install all dependencies 
than the developers.

Another suggestion would be to have them talk to Debian or Ubuntu and 
see if one of them
could add Koha into their software repository.  I will be emailing 
Ubuntu to try and do
such a thing.  This would make it so that any Debian or Ubuntu user 
could just "apt-get
install koha" and then just wait for setup prompts.  Apt would handle 
all dependencies.

At this point I am trying to build my own VMware image, if I get that 
done I will try
and make a torrent and get it out on the internet with some instructions.

Thanks again.

Jim Kronebusch

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