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. Our webinar server is here: http://tex.sun.ac.za Cheers hg On 26 August 2013 17:22, Mark Tompsett <[email protected]> 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 > -- *Hilton Gibson* Ubuntu Linux Systems Administrator JS Gericke Library Room 1025D Stellenbosch University Private Bag X5036 Stellenbosch 7599 South Africa Tel: +27 21 808 4100 | Cell: +27 84 646 4758 http://library.sun.ac.za http://za.linkedin.com/in/hiltongibson http://staff.lib.sun.ac.za/~hgibson/docs/cv/cv.html _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
