[Koha] Installing Koha on LInux Mint VERSION="18.1 (Serena)

[Daniel F. Twum]

I did not "down-grade" but rather installed MariaDB. The final database size of table creation and population was:

The default timeout was not long enough so I kept getting timeouts during the table creation. I experimented with different values and finally 
used 6000 to see what will happen. That's when the table creation finally completed, and population also went to success as well.

I am running on a Dell desktop with i7 processor and 16GB of RAM. During the install, I had Firefox as the only UI running.
First few times I was running top to see what was happening but during the success runs, I stopped running so missed out on the swap business.
Load average was higher than normal. 

cheers,
--Daniel
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 16:30:29 -0500
From: Paul A 
To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] Installing Koha on LInux Mint VERSION="18.1
	(Serena)"
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On 2017-02-27 06:19 AM, Daniel F. Twum wrote:
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>I had to increase Timeout in the /etc/apache2/apache2.conf to
>  myusbpc-XPS-8700 koha_ofosualibrary # grep Timeout /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
> # Timeout: The number of seconds before receives and sends time out.
> Timeout 6000

Did you "down-grade" MySQL to 5.5 / 5.6 or change to MariaDB? How big is 
your database, and how much memory was available? An hour and three 
quarters seems inordinately long, although a lack of multi-core 
threading might be a cause. Did this spill over into swap?

Ref. point for us is that any MySql op that lasts for more than a couple 
of seconds (with 16 Gigs RAM on reasonably fast 8-core systems) is 
suspect as being badly coded.

Mint, per se, shouldn't be a stumbling point -- it's only a desktop, and 
should have minimal impact on the underlying Debian/Ubuntu system.

Best - Paul


>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> regards,
> --Daniel
>
>
>
> On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 15:49:06 +0100, Tajoli Zeno  wrote:
>
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Il 25/02/2017 15:32, Daniel F. Twum  ha scritto:
>> My first attempt at installing Koha on Linux Mint has encountered the
> following issues:
>>
>> myusbpc at myusbpc-XPS-8700 ~/Downloads/koha-16.11.00 $ sudo apt-get install koha-common
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> E: Unable to locate package koha-common
>>
>> I am following the instructions https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_ubuntu_-_packages
>> Here is the history of what I did:
>>   513  echo deb http://debian.koha-community.org/koha stable main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/koha.list
>>   514  ll /etc/apt/sources.list.d/koha.list
>>   515  cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/koha.list
>>   516  wget -O- http://debian.koha-community.org/koha/gpg.asc | sudo apt-key add -
>>   517  sudo apt-get install koha-common
>>
>
> the problem is that after 516
>  >516  wget -O- http://debian.koha-community.org/koha/gpg.asc | sudo
> apt-key add -
>
> you try to install koha-common
>  >   517  sudo apt-get install koha-common
>
> The correct sequence is:
> wget -O- http://debian.koha-community.org/koha/gpg.asc | sudo apt-key add -
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get upgrade
> sudo apt-get install koha-common
>
>
> I suggest you to read all web page
> https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_ubuntu_-_packages before to
> continue
>
> Remeber that your version of Linux Mint uses MySQL 5.7 so check this
> paragraph:
>
> https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_ubuntu_-_packages#Ubuntu_16.04_and_MySQL_5.7
>
> Generaly speaking use Linux Mint only if you know it very well.
> Koha is tested on Debian and Ubuntu, we probaly have very little
> experience on Linux Mint.
>
> Bye
> Zeno Tajoli