[Koha] Koha - Libopedia

[Hilton Gibson]

When I did "koha" install it pulled in "koha-common" as a dependency. As
the note says it is confusing.

I agree with your simplifying the wiki page. It is what I expected when I
first viewed the Koha wiki.

For example, see:
https://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/081InstallationUbuntu as good
example of an Ubuntu only install guide.
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On 26 August 2013 17:22, Mark Tompsett <mtompset at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
>  I had to try both methods to determine the best support option.
>>
>
> Okay, I can understand installing the wrong way to see why it is the wrong
> way. Though, sharing your experiments is probably more confusion than help
> for the masses. As Owen Leonard pointed out, using and contributing to
> documentation on the Koha wiki is far more useful than writing your own.
>
>
>  Now you can "flame on" me.
>>
>
> Well, since you invited feedback.
>
>
>  I have creates a new wiki page, called Koha not KOHA
>>
>
> But you still have KOHA on the page.
>
>
>  And I have noted the packages installation method.
>>
>
> And you got it wrong, because if you read:
> http://wiki.koha-community.**org/wiki/Debian#Everyone<http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Debian#Everyone>
> (scroll down to the second line of the second box)
> "sudo apt-get install koha-common" is the recommended command.
>
> Instead you have the unrecommended way, as noted by the last sentence of
> the same section in italics just above http://wiki.koha-community.**
> org/wiki/Debian#Quick_Start<http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Debian#Quick_Start>
> "It is not recommend that you use this package [referring to koha instead
> of koha-common] yet."
>
> There are other problems, but I just chose to highlight one, so that you
> can realize why linking to official documentation and the supplementary
> documentation you referenced to set up other things is much better than
> writing your own documentation and getting any details wrong.
>
> I would recommend writing your instructions like: Install Ubuntu (link to
> installing ubuntu), Install LAMP server (link to installing LAMP server),
> Install Mail Transfer Agent (link to installing MTA), Install Koha (link to
> installing koha). Your instructions will "auto-update", because the links
> aren't likely to break and they will be kept current by someone more
> familiar with that part of the process. Every time there is a release,
> check your instructions. And if something breaks in a given part, ask the
> community for that part for updated instructions. This keeps your
> instructions always current, rather than having another frozen in time copy
> of archaic instructions out on the internet serving as a source of
> confusion.
>
> GPML,
> Mark Tompsett
>



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