[Koha] Creating an INSTALL.opensuse file and Koha 3 and openSUSE versions

[Ricardo Dias Marques]

Hi all,

I just created a web page in the Koha Developer Wiki -
http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php - explaining how to install Koha 3 in
openSUSE 11 (RC1).

The page that I created is located here:

Installation Guide for Installing Koha 3 on openSUSE 11
http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=opensuse_11.0

I think that this work is almost finished. Feel free to review it and
send comments (by replying to this post in the mailing list).

If you decide to change the page in the wiki, please inform here in
the Mailing List about what changes you made!  :)

Well, it's already past 1:00 AM here now. Time to go to sleep!

Best wishes,
Ricardo Dias Marques
lists AT ricmarques DOT net


On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Ricardo Dias Marques
<lists at ricmarques.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Following up the request from Joshua Ferraro asking me to create an
> INSTALL.opensuse file  -
> http://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2008-May/013916.html - here I am
> writing some questions regarding WHAT versions of Koha 3 and openSUSE
> I should target.
>
> I'm asking this because:
>
> 1 - openSUSE 11.0 is "just around the corner": the RC1 ("Release
> Candidate 1") is scheduled for the 29th of the current month (May
> 2008). The final version is scheduled for the 19th June -
> http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap/11.0
>
> I already tried to install Koha 3 Beta 2 in the current openSUSE
> available Beta (openSUSE 11 Beta 3). Besides an annoying bug in
> package selection during openSUSE installation ( already acknowledged
> and corrected for RC1: "Package selector doesn't show any pattern" -
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390139 ), the installation
> of Koha wasn't harder than it usually is.
>
> Actually, Koha installation was EASIER on openSUSE 11.0 Beta 3: at
> least, CPAN installation was easier than it was in openSUSE 10.3,
> because CPAN "setup wizard" now asks if it can assume what it thinks
> to be reasonable defaults. If you say "yes", CPAN just sets up itself.
> Pretty neat!  :)
>
> So, my first question is: Should I create documentation for openSUSE
> 10.3 or for openSUSE 11 (Beta 3 / RC 1 / Final)?
>
> I would like very much to get feedback on that. However, I do think
> that the answer to that question depends partially on the answer to
> another question:
>
>
> 2 - Is a Beta 3 / Release Candidate of Koha 3 expected to be available soon?
>
> If a "Beta 3" of Koha is also "just around the corner", then it may
> make sense to create setup instructions based on openSUSE 10.3. If
> we're still moderately far from a Beta 3 / Release Candidate of Koha
> 3, it seems to me that basing the instructions on openSUSE 11 would be
> a "better bet".
>
> Another "issue" would be that it probably makes sense to integrate
> Koha dependencies that were created after Koha 3 Beta 2 (like the
> HTML::Scrubber Perl Module and ImageMagick) in this document.
>
>
> A final (?) question: based on feedback from Jesse (pianohacker at
> gmail.com) and Joshua Ferraro, I'm thinking of "putting" up an initial
> version of this document with instructions to install Koha in openSUSE
> in the Koha Developer's Wiki - http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php - letting
> people review and improve on it (thanks to Brendan Gallagher for
> already having  volunteered to help!), and then putting the "final"
> version in the git tree as the INSTALL.opensuse text file.
>
>
> Comments and questions about all this... please?  :)
>
> Best wishes,
> Ricardo Dias Marques
> lists AT ricmarques DOT net