[Koha] Install for Dummies

[Eric Bégin]

Bruce,

What is the first line in the Perl @INC: section in your staff About 
Koha's page ?

This is most likely the value you should use to set PERL5LIB.

Eric Bégin
www.inLibro.com

On 12-01-21 08:13 PM, Bruce A Metcalf wrote:
> Eric Bégin wrote:
>
>>> I set:
>>>
>>> KOHA_CONF=/etc/koha/koha-conf.xml
>> This looks ok to me.
>>
>>> PERL5LIB=/usr/share/koha/lib
>> If you did the default installation, the PERL5LIB should then be 
>> /usr/share/koha
>
> Tried this. Got the same failure message. Must be something else I did 
> wrong or failed to do.
>
> Thanks again,
> / Bruce /
> Bruce A. Metcalf
> Library Director
> Augustan Society Library
>
>
>> On 12-01-21 10:16 AM, Bruce A Metcalf wrote:
>>> Chris Nighswonger wrote:
>>>> Have a read at these FAQ's:
>>>>
>>>> http://koha-community.org/documentation/faq/searching/
>>>> Pay careful attention to the solution for question #4. It appears 
>>>> you've not exported the proper env vars.
>>>
>>> It sounds like you're recommending:
>>>
>>>> 1. Check that you are exporting the two environmental variables
>>>> necessary to run Koha scripts from the command line. These are (modify
>>>> to fit paths on your system):
>>>>
>>>> PERL5LIB=/path/to/koha
>>>> KOHA_CONF=/path/to/koha-conf.xml
>>>
>>> Which sounds not unreasonable. I set:
>>>
>>> KOHA_CONF=/etc/koha/koha-conf.xml
>>>
>>> Which seems reasonable. I then set:
>>>
>>> PERL5LIB=/usr/share/koha/lib
>>>
>>> I chose this because the failure message for rebuild_zebra.pl claims 
>>> it can't locate C4/Context.pm in @INC, which includes /etc/perl, and 
>>> where that file can be found.
>>>
>>> It would appear that these choices were incorrect, or that I've made 
>>> some other important error, as these two changes make no change in 
>>> the failure message when I run rebuild_zebra.pl.
>>>
>>> I *did* warn y'all I was a newbie....
>>>
>>> With thanks,
>>> / Bruce /
>>> Bruce A. Metcalf
>>> Library Director
>>> The Augustan Society Library
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Bruce Metcalf 
>>>> <bruce.metcalf at figzu.com <mailto:bruce.metcalf at figzu.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     Eric Bégin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>             All three commands fail with a variety of messages, but 
>>>> all
>>>>             include "file not found".
>>>>
>>>>         Indeed, that doesn't look good.
>>>>
>>>>         Can you provide the full output of the rebuild_zebra -b -r -v
>>>>
>>>>     bruce at library:/usr/share/__koha4/bin/migration_tools$
>>>>     rebuild_zebra.pl <http://rebuild_zebra.pl> -b -r -v
>>>>     Can't locate Koha.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl
>>>>     /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1 
>>>> /usr/lib/perl5
>>>>     /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10
>>>>     /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at ./rebuild_zebra.pl
>>>> <http://rebuild_zebra.pl> line 5.
>>>>     BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./rebuild_zebra.pl
>>>> <http://rebuild_zebra.pl> line 5.
>>>>
>>>>     Hope that helps,
>>>>     Bruce
>>>>
>>>>         On 2012-01-19 09 <tel:2012-01-19%2009>:41, Bruce Metcalf 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>             Bruce Metcalf wrote:
>>>>
>>>>                     I am a new user of Koha, and have had my Linux 
>>>> guru
>>>>                     (who had not
>>>>                     seen Koha prior to this work) install version 
>>>> 3.6.2
>>>>                     under Debian
>>>>                     Squeeze on an otherwise empty virtual server.
>>>>
>>>>                     All appears to be going exactly as it should.
>>>>
>>>>                     owever, the public OPAC shows no books in the
>>>>                     collection.
>>>>
>>>>             Eric Bégin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>                 Get a look at this link. It shows the most common
>>>>                 problems when you
>>>>                  get not result in the OPAC.
>>>>
>>>>                 
>>>> http://koha-community.org/__documentation/faq/searching/
>>>> <http://koha-community.org/documentation/faq/searching/>
>>>>
>>>>                 Don't hesitate to come back and ask for more info if
>>>>                 this link doesn't solve your problem.
>>>>
>>>>             This page seems to suggest:
>>>>
>>>>             zebraidx -x /.../zebra-biblios.cfg drop biblios 
>>>> zebraidx -c
>>>>             /.../zebra-biblios.cfg commit rebuild_zebra.pl
>>>> <http://rebuild_zebra.pl> -b -r -v
>>>>
>>>>             All three commands fail with a variety of messages, but 
>>>> all
>>>>             include
>>>>             "file not found".
>>>>
>>>>             I'm thinking that there is an important configuration or
>>>>             initialization that hasn't been completed?
>>>>
>>>>             Regards, / Bruce / Bruce A. Metcalf Executive Director The
>>>>             Augustan Society Library
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