Re: [Koha-devel] 3.8.4 interim [was: koha-zebra-daemon not starting]

2012-08-22 Thread Mark Tompsett
Greetings, There are THREE ways to install koha (with respect to Ubuntu): 1) Packages (http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_3.8_on_Debian_Squeeze) 2) Tarball (http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_Ubuntu) 3) GIT (http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Version_Control_Using_Git) Which way

Re: [Koha-devel] 3.8.4 interim [was: koha-zebra-daemon not starting]

2012-08-22 Thread Mark Tompsett
Greetings, And having just looked through the 3.8.4 files in /install_misc/ubuntu*.packages, I have realized my patches didn't make it into the 3.8.X stream. I'll have to bug report and do a 3.8.X specific bug patch (they are in 3.6.7)... But that aside. As I was just chatting with tcohen on

Re: [Koha-devel] Officially supported OS versions

2012-08-22 Thread MJ Ray
Ian asked: This leads me to the question: What OS versions does Koha run on? This is both a descriptive question (what's true now) as well as a prescriptive one (what systems SHOULD Koha run on). I think the role of koha-community should be to describe what Koha runs on. This has a

Re: [Koha-devel] 3.8.4 interim [was: koha-zebra-daemon not starting]

2012-08-22 Thread Paul
At 10:04 PM 8/22/2012 +0800, Mark Tompsett wrote: Greetings, And having just looked through the 3.8.4 files in /install_misc/ubuntu*.packages, I have realized my patches didn't make it into the 3.8.X stream. I'll have to bug report and do a 3.8.X specific bug patch (they are in 3.6.7)... But

Re: [Koha-devel] Officially supported OS versions

2012-08-22 Thread Mason James
So, in short: maybe offer packages for debian and fedora and any other similar ones, else just describe what works and help any third-party offerings. Hope that explains, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. MJ, i agree on all your points :)

Re: [Koha-devel] 3.8.4 interim [was: koha-zebra-daemon not starting]

2012-08-22 Thread Archives and Collections Society
At 03:56 AM 8/23/2012 +0800, Mark Tompsett wrote: --- SNIP --- $ sudo apt-get install libyaz4 PLUS libyaz4-dev libnet-z3950-zoom-perl libxml-libxslt-perl libgraphics-magick-perl liblingua-stem-snowball-perl libtemplate-perl libtemplate-plugin-htmltotext-perl liblingua-ispell-perl

Re: [Koha-devel] 3.8.4 interim [was: koha-zebra-daemon not starting]

2012-08-22 Thread Archives and Collections Society
At 04:41 PM 8/22/2012 -0300, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote: [snip] The tarball has always worked extremely well on i386 machines -- I just get the impression (not proven) that Ubuntu 12.04 gets its knickers in a twist on AMD64. Â But with a little time and effort workarounds can be found. Â

Re: [Koha-devel] 3.8.4 interim [was: koha-zebra-daemon not starting]

2012-08-22 Thread Paul
At 04:41 PM 8/22/2012 -0300, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote: [snip] The tarball has always worked extremely well on i386 machines -- I just get the impression (not proven) that Ubuntu 12.04 gets its knickers in a twist on AMD64. Â But with a little time and effort workarounds can be found. Â

Re: [Koha-devel] 3.8.4 interim [was: koha-zebra-daemon not starting]

2012-08-22 Thread Tomas Cohen Arazi
Paul, You're right. The current stable tarball includes: - Outdated INSTALL.ubuntu* files - Outdated misc/ubuntu.packages file All people that answered your questions is aware of that (we meet at IRC every day and have nice exchanges on that subject). We even fixed that problem, and it should be

[Koha-devel] Lets improve the Koha installation documentation

2012-08-22 Thread Mason James
Regards To+ PS: Sorry for my poor english. PS2: I've struggled and got annoyed for the outdated docs, and even filled this http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8478. You'll see Mark's work there. Tomas there has been some discussion about ways to improve the Koha

Re: [Koha-devel] 3.8.4 interim [was: koha-zebra-daemon not starting]

2012-08-22 Thread Paul
At 07:40 PM 8/22/2012 -0300, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote: Tomas, and besides that, Koha runs flawlessly for of us on 64 bit servers, runnning on Ubuntu LTS distro (12.04 and 10.04). People just told you how to circumvent those issues. Thanks for the reply -- I'm convinced that everyone is

Re: [Koha-devel] Lets improve the Koha installation documentation

2012-08-22 Thread Chris Cormack
On 23 August 2012 12:25, Mason James m...@kohaaloha.com wrote: Regards To+ PS: Sorry for my poor english. PS2: I've struggled and got annoyed for the outdated docs, and even filled this http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8478. You'll see Mark's work there. Tomas

Re: [Koha-devel] Lets improve the Koha installation documentation

2012-08-22 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! the big problem is... there are too many 'Koha installation guides' on the kc.org wiki that have old ,incorrect, redundant or duplicated info         Alternatively, we could mark those entries up with wiki tags to reflect that there is old, incorrect, or redundant redundant

Re: [Koha-devel] 3.8.4 interim [was: koha-zebra-daemon not starting]

2012-08-22 Thread Mason James
On 2012-08-23, at 12:36 PM, Paul wrote: At 07:40 PM 8/22/2012 -0300, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote: Tomas, and besides that, Koha runs flawlessly for of us on 64 bit servers, runnning on Ubuntu LTS distro (12.04 and 10.04). People just told you how to circumvent those issues. Thanks for

Re: [Koha-devel] Lets improve the Koha installation documentation

2012-08-22 Thread Chris Cormack
On 23 August 2012 13:52, Chris Nighswonger cnighswon...@foundations.edu wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Chris Cormack ch...@bigballofwax.co.nz wrote: what do other Koha devs think? does anyone else agree that these old or inaccurate install guides are causing problems for Koha

Re: [Koha-devel] Lets improve the Koha installation documentation

2012-08-22 Thread Mark Tompsett
Greetings, Yes, I was hoping to getting around to cleaning up the documentation further. However until I have a 64-bit OS to attempt to install, I can't really address all the problems some people are encountering. Which bugs me, because I want good documentation for all three types of