[Koha] Koha for our office library

Fri Apr 20 00:17:56 NZST 2018

Hi Jonathan,

Thank you for the response. How much is "enough disk space"? My Mac hard
drive shows 44.36GB available. Should that be sufficient?

Cheers
Raimund

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 12:22 PM Jonathan Druart <
jonathan.druart at bugs.koha-community.org> wrote:

> Hi Raimund,
>
> There is a koha-devel list, but that's fine.
> Keep trying with kohadevbox, it's the recommended way to give Koha a try
> (especially if you want to hack it).
> The message is explicit: "You don't have enough free space"
> Do you have enough disk space on your host?
>
> Regards,
> Jonathan
>
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 at 08:02 Raimund Klein <rklein at thoughtworks.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> This is Raimund from ThoughtWorks Manchester.
>>
>> We're looking at adding a management system to our little office library,
>> mainly with the view of adding electronic checkout capabilities - we're a
>> Tech company highly interested in all things that have to do with little
>> sensors etc., so this seems like a reasonable project which could actually
>> show off some ideas to our clients in the future.
>>
>> We already have some capability on the sensor side, but I don't want to
>> write an inventory system from scratch. A librarian friend of mine pointed
>> me to Koha, and I played around with the demo on the web - quite
>> impressive. My next step would be to try it out in combination with
>> sticking a tag into a few of our books - for now on my dev machine (a
>> Mac).
>>
>> Now I understand from the website that Koha usually runs on some flavour
>> of
>> Linux, preferably Debian. So I tried several things:
>>
>> - Setting up a Debian Virtual Box and installing everything there. Turned
>> into a lot of pain, probably because I didn't find a good raw Debian image
>> to start with.
>> - Tried the same with CentOS. I actually got much further, but then I
>> noticed that I didn't understand the Koha installation itself.
>>
> - I stumbled upon the Docker image <https://hub.docker.com/r/digibib/koha/
>> >
>
>
>> from the Oslo Public Library. For my purposes, this sounds ideal; however,
>> it doesn't seem to work out of the box. When I start it and point my
>> browser to localhost:8080 or 8081, all I get is a HTTP 500; the logs
>> indicate that the DB isn't set up properly:
>> ==> /var/log/koha/name/plack-error.log <==
>> DBD::mysql::db do failed: Table 'koha_name.systempreferences' doesn't
>> exist
>> [for Statement "
>>             SELECT * FROM systempreferences WHERE 1 = 0 "] at
>> /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Database.pm line 93.
>> DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Table 'koha_name.systempreferences' doesn't
>> exist [for Statement "SELECT `me`.`variable`, `me`.`value`,
>> `me`.`options`,
>> `me`.`explanation`, `me`.`type` FROM `systempreferences` `me` WHERE (
>> `me`.`variable` = ? )" with ParamValues: 0='casauthentication'] at
>> /usr/share/perl5/DBIx/Class/Storage/DBI.pm line 1832.
>> DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Table 'koha_name.systempreferences' doesn't
>> exist [for Statement "SELECT `me`.`variable`, `me`.`value`,
>> `me`.`options`,
>> `me`.`explanation`, `me`.`type` FROM `systempreferences` `me` WHERE (
>> `me`.`variable` = ? )" with ParamValues: 0='caslogout'] at
>> /usr/share/perl5/DBIx/Class/Storage/DBI.pm line 1832.
>> DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Table 'koha_name.systempreferences' doesn't
>> exist [for Statement "SELECT `me`.`variable`, `me`.`value`,
>> `me`.`options`,
>> `me`.`explanation`, `me`.`type` FROM `systempreferences` `me` WHERE (
>> `me`.`variable` = ? )" with ParamValues: 0='casserverurl'] at
>> /usr/share/perl5/DBIx/Class/Storage/DBI.pm line 1832.
>>
>> - Finally I tried the Vagrant based kohadevbox
>>
> <https://github.com/digibib/kohadevbox> (from Oslo as well). That won't
>
>
>> even start for me:
>> TASK [Update apt cache if needed]
>> **********************************************
>> fatal: [jessie]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "'/usr/bin/apt-get
>> dist-upgrade' failed: E: You don't have enough free space in
>> /var/cache/apt/archives/.\n", "rc": 100, "stdout": "Reading package
>> lists...\nBuilding dependency tree...\nReading state information...\nThe
>> following NEW packages will be installed:\n  firmware-linux-free
>> irqbalance
>> libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data libnuma1\n  linux-image-3.16.0-5-amd64
>> shared-mime-info xdg-user-dirs\nThe following packages will be upgraded:\n
>> bind9-host dnsutils exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light\n
>> gcc-4.9-base host isc-dhcp-client isc-dhcp-common libbind9-90\n
>> libcurl3-gnutls libdns-export100 libdns100 libgcc1 libicu52
>> libirs-export91\n  libisc-export95 libisc95 libisccc90 libisccfg-export90
>> libisccfg90\n  liblwres90 libssl1.0.0 libstdc++6 libtiff5 libxml2
>> linux-image-amd64 openssl\n  perl perl-base perl-modules
>> sensible-utils\n33
>> upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.\nNeed to get
>> 60.6 MB of archives.\nAfter this operation, 182 MB of additional disk
>> space
>> will be used.\n", "stdout_lines": ["Reading package lists...", "Building
>> dependency tree...", "Reading state information...", "The following NEW
>> packages will be installed:", "  firmware-linux-free irqbalance
>> libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data libnuma1", "  linux-image-3.16.0-5-amd64
>> shared-mime-info xdg-user-dirs", "The following packages will be
>> upgraded:", "  bind9-host dnsutils exim4 exim4-base exim4-config
>> exim4-daemon-light", "  gcc-4.9-base host isc-dhcp-client isc-dhcp-common
>> libbind9-90", "  libcurl3-gnutls libdns-export100 libdns100 libgcc1
>> libicu52 libirs-export91", "  libisc-export95 libisc95 libisccc90
>> libisccfg-export90 libisccfg90", "  liblwres90 libssl1.0.0 libstdc++6
>> libtiff5 libxml2 linux-image-amd64 openssl", "  perl perl-base
>> perl-modules
>> sensible-utils", "33 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
>> upgraded.", "Need to get 60.6 MB of archives.", "After this operation, 182
>> MB of additional disk space will be used."]}
>>
>> At this point, I'm happy to receive any help. Ideally, I'd like to get the
>> Docker image to work.
>>
>> (Should I have sent this to the wrong mailing list, please let me know.
>> Since I'm not planning to do any development on Koha itself, I still view
>> myself as a user; but please let me know if my understanding is wrong.)
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Raimund Klein
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>> Technical Lead
>> Email rklein at thoughtworks.com
>> Telephone +447941061959 <+44%207941%20061959>
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