[Koha] Cataloguer's blues

[Joshua Ferraro]

On 11/13/07, a.maclennan at rgu.ac.uk <a.maclennan at rgu.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi, Joshua
> Thanks for getting back to me. I see I've been a bit verbose - my core
> question was: " can I tell the install script that MySQL now lives at
> /opt/lampp/bin/mysql". Is there a way to change the install script in
> this regard?
Hmmm...so the issue you're having is that the installer doesn't realize
that MySQL is, in fact, installed? Sorry if I'm being dense, but I'm not
sure why that would matter :-)

Cheers,

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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua Ferraro [mailto:joshua.ferraro at liblime.com]
> Sent: 13 November 2007 02:40
> To: Alan MacLennan (absam)
> Cc: Koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Cataloguer's blues
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> I'd try posting this to a red hat or mysql list, or try to hit someone
> up on IRC. I'm not sure too many of us Kohaers use Red Hat, so we won't
> be much help I'm afraid.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Joshua Ferraro                       SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE
> President, Technology       migration, training, maintenance, support
> LibLime                                Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS
> jmf at liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS
>
>
> On 11/10/07, a.maclennan at rgu.ac.uk <a.maclennan at rgu.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Hi, my name is Alan, and I'm a cataloguer. Sorry - wrong group. :-) I
> want to insatll Koha on a Redhat 8 server, to give the students a chance
> to catalogue on a real system. Downloaded the latest stable version,
> took about a day to sort out the dependencies, and the installer chokes
> at the MySQL bit. Now, this is my fault, because, having run an old
> MySQL/Apach/PHP setup for years, I wanted to try blogs and wikis, and so
> went for a XAMPP setup. Foolishly, I copied the new my.cnf over the old
> one, thinking that would work, and it doesn't, and I didn't save the old
> one. So, how can I, or can I, tell the install script that MySQL now
> lives at /opt/lampp/bin/mysql and not at the new my.cnf script, which
> dies becaus it seems not to be compatible with the old installation.
> Maybe someone could do me a favour and post a my.cnf for a bog-standard
> installation of MySQL in /usr/bin, or give me some advice, please?
> (Yeah, I know - leave the computers alone, and stick to the 5" x 3"
> cards ...) Now, when I try mysql -p with the new my.cnf, it tells me to
> consider upgrading the client. You can't seem to download earlier
> versions any more, and the 5 version has another heap of dependecies.
> Sometimes, it hardly seems worth chewing through the restraints in the
> morning ...
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Alan
> >
> > Alan MacLennan
> > Lecturer/Course Leader
> > Aberdeen Business School
> > Robert Gordon University
> > Garthdee Rd, Aberdeen AB10 7QE
> > T: 01224 263910 F: 01224 263553 E: a.maclennan at rgu.ac.uk
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