[Koha] Wiping all partial or full Koha isntallation(s) and installing stable under Mint

[C.J.S. Hayward]

I've filed a bug at
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18983

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 11:17 PM, C.J.S. Hayward <cjsh at cjshayward.com>
wrote:

> Let me send off this email, and I'll report a bug.
>
> N.B. Koha is installed in some sense, but when I try to access the
> webinstaller I got maintenance mode:
>
> System Maintenance
>
> The Koha online catalog is offline for system maintenance. We'll be back
> soon! If you have any questions, please contact the site administrator
>
> A brief search turned up https://lists.katipo.co.nz/
> public/koha/2013-December/038208.html which picked up in a possible email
> typo specifying a port as 8008. This suggestion appears to be irrelevant
> because if the OP had tried to access Koha on 8008 and hadn't added
> anything else listening on that port, the error would be "Connection
> refused", not "System maintenance".
>
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 10:02 PM, Jonathan Druart <
> jonathan.druart at bugs.koha-community.org> wrote:
>
>> Try with --create-db:
>>   koha-create --create-db library
>>
>> The doc says that --create-db is the default value, but it does not seem
>> to
>> work.
>> Could you report the bug?
>>
>> On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 at 15:36 C.J.S. Hayward <cjsh at cjshayward.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Thank you. I've used koha-remove, and uninstalled and reinstalled
>> > koha-common, including setting an a2enmod.
>> >
>> > Right now I have an /etc/koha heirarchy that has a lot of stuff in it,
>> but
>> > /etc/koha/sites is an empty directory *after* trying to run "koha-create
>> > library":
>> >
>> > toolchest sites # koha-create library
>> > failed to load external entity "/etc/koha/sites/library/koha-conf.xml"
>> >
>> > How can I create or get an appropriate koha-conf.xml? I notice that
>> there
>> > is an /etc/koha/koha-conf-site.xml.in; what can or should I be doing to
>> > ideally transform it to make /etc/koha/sites/library/koha-conf.xml (and
>> > anything else that should be in /etc/koha/sites/library/)?
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 8:46 PM, Doug Dearden <dearden at sarsf.org>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > If you installed using the packages I believe you can use koha-remove
>> .
>> > > See here: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Commands_provided_by_
>> > > the_Debian_packages#koha-remove
>> > >
>> > > Doug
>> > >
>> > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of
>> C.J.S.
>> > > Hayward
>> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2017 11:18 AM
>> > > To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
>> > > Subject: [Koha] Wiping all partial or full Koha isntallation(s) and
>> > > installing stable under Mint
>> > >
>> > > I have a virtual machine that may have two conflicting Koha
>> > installations.
>> > >
>> > > What, if anything, can I do that will wipe all Koha installations
>> > > completely, and install a new stable from scratch, following
>> > > https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Debian?
>> > >
>> > > I don't know if I *exactly* need to go so far as to delete details
>> like
>> > the
>> > > Koha repository in aptitude... but I am willing to do so if I am
>> > advised. I
>> > > do think it would be better to wipe any Koha-created directory
>> > heirarchies,
>> > > and drop any Koha-related databases.
>> > >
>> > > (Note: My system doesn't contain any valuable information *in* Koha;
>> the
>> > > only loss would be the time and energy to delete and rebuild the
>> > > installation.)
>> > >
>> > > --
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> christos Jonathan Seth Hayward,
> An Orthodox Christian author.
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> <christos.jonathan.hayward at gmail.com> - website <https://cjshayward.com/>.
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-- 
christos Jonathan Seth Hayward,
An Orthodox Christian author.
Amazon <http://amazon.com/author/cjshayward> - email
<christos.jonathan.hayward at gmail.com> - website <https://cjshayward.com/>.