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koha-3.00.00 make fails
by Rick Welykochy 28 Dec '13

28 Dec '13

Hi all, I have downloaded http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00.tar.gz and began installing it on Debian/etch (in a Linux vserver environment). 0. FINE: cd koha-3.00.00 1. FINE: perl Makefile.PL 2. FAIL: make : : : Manifying blib/man3/C4::UploadedFile.3pm Manifying blib/man3/C4::BackgroundJob.3pm Manifying blib/man3/opac::opac-dictionary.3pm Manifying blib/man3/serials::member-search.3pm /usr/bin/perl "-Iblib/arch" "-Iblib/lib" fix-perl-path.PL blib /usr/bin/perl "-Iblib/arch" "-Iblib/lib" rewrite-config.PL blib/KOHA_CONF_DIR/koha-conf.xml Bad arg length for Socket::inet_ntoa, length is 0, should be 4 at rewrite-config.PL line 67. make: *** [blib/KOHA_CONF_DIR/koha-conf.xml] Error 255 Any ideas what went wrong and how to fix? Aside: there were a couple of other problems with this "out of the box" debian based install of Koha 3.0 which had to be fixed along the way, e.g. seven missing perl modules and libgd not found. I'll report on the entire process from unpacking to a running Koha/3.00.00 once I get to the end. cheers rickw -- ________________________________________________________________ Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services || Internet Driving Instructor The manual said Windows XP/SP2 or better so I installed Linux.

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Re: [Koha-devel] virtual hosting of Koha
by Krishnan M 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

I get the digest, so i am only able to respond now. I want to report one failure, and an eventual success (using a different route...) The failure: i was unable to deploy Koha to my regular account with a shared hosting service (specifically, hostmonster.com) i don't remember any problems with the make process, however, i had issues with getting the hosting to work...i don't even think i was using virtual hosts, i wanted to first get at least the INTRANET running, but the only thing i could use was changes to .htaccess files, since i don't get access to Apache's config directly. Koha had problems finding the Perl modules, specifically it did not pick up environment variables pointing to their location i was not very smart at that point with different approaches, so after trying for a while, i chose another route... Success: Since i was determined to host on the Internet, i basically decided to get my "own server", essentially a slice (at slicehost.com) They use virtualization and give you a choice of OS, ample bandwidth, and for all practical purposes, its like your own box, where you are root and can do whatever you like. >From then on, it was like a regular Koha install and a few hours later, it was up and running... i've never gone back and analyzed what went wrong with the shared hosting, but i basically faced one problem after another, so that eventually, i just gave up. But, i think, in theory, it should be possible to do with some changes to the install process. Regards, krishnan --- On Fri, 16/1/09, koha-devel-request(a)lists.koha.org <koha-devel-request(a)lists.koha.org> wrote: From: koha-devel-request(a)lists.koha.org <koha-devel-request(a)lists.koha.org> Subject: Koha-devel Digest, Vol 38, Issue 11 To: koha-devel(a)lists.koha.org Date: Friday, 16 January, 2009, 11:00 AM Send Koha-devel mailing list submissions to koha-devel(a)lists.koha.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to koha-devel-request(a)lists.koha.org You can reach the person managing the list at koha-devel-owner(a)lists.koha.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Koha-devel digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: virtual hosting of Koha (Michel Virard) 2. how to handle the link back to amazon? (Nicolas Morin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:35:38 -0500 From: Michel Virard <mvirard(a)videotron.ca> Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] virtual hosting of Koha To: "Han, Yan" <hany(a)u.library.arizona.edu>, Koha-devel(a)listes.koha-fr.org Message-ID: <op.untv5os276brov@zorglub> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-1 Hello Yan, Any luck so far? I, too, am planning to move my Koha to the commercial hosting service where our web site is already located and I am interested in what to expect with such a move. Michel Le Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:07:34 -0500, Han, Yan <hany(a)u.library.arizona.edu> a ?crit: > Hello, All, > > > I have been running Koha on a local server, but am testing to virtual > host Koha on a commercial server (for example. Bluehost.com) In local > server implementation, you need to "make install" to install Koha. > > > In a commercial server, "make install" is not allowed. So does anyone > have any luck to run koha in a commercial host? If so, please let me > know the configuration changes, and the company's name. > > > It seems that <virtualhost> configuration is not allowed in this > commercial server. If Apache env is not allowed to change in this case, > how can we setEnv for "perl5lib" and "Koha_conf"? > > > # KOHA's OPAC Configuration > > <VirtualHost 150.135.239.44:80> > > ServerAdmin > > DocumentRoot /data1/koha/opac/htdocs > > ServerName kobol > > ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/koha/ "/data1/koha/opac/cgi-bin/" > > Redirect permanent index.html > http://150.135.239.44:80/cgi-bin/koha/opac-main.pl > > > ErrorLog /data1/koha/log/opac-error_log > > TransferLog /data1/koha/log/opac-access_log > > SetEnv PERL5LIB "/data1/koha/intranet/modules" > > SetEnv KOHA_CONF "/etc/koha.conf" > > </VirtualHost> > > > > > Thanks, > > > Yan > -- Michel Virard ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:59:13 +0100 From: "Nicolas Morin" <nicolas.morin(a)biblibre.com> Subject: [Koha-devel] how to handle the link back to amazon? To: "koha-devel(a)lists.koha.org" <koha-devel(a)lists.koha.org> Message-ID: <a370accf0901160259i4e3dbe75k94e1f4455c358776(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi there, I want to gather opinions about a possible small change in the way the Amazon covers are handled in the opac on the detailed view of a record. Currently we show the Amazon cover and link back to the product's page on Amazon's web site from the cover itself. Some librarians I talk to are uncomfortable with the idea that their public library will show a link to a (monopolistic (online-only (us-owned (insert-yr-own-fears-here)))) bookseller in such a prominent way : using the whole cover image as a link. At least some of them would be assuaged, I think, by a more discreet link between their opac and Amazon : removing the link from the image itself and providing it through a tiny text just below the image, saying "source : Amazon", might be a solution. See example at http://www.libfly.com/je-suis-une-legende-livre-25918.html What do you think? Nicolas -- Nicolas Morin Mobile: +33(0)633 19 11 36 http://www.biblibre.com ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel(a)lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel End of Koha-devel Digest, Vol 38, Issue 11 ****************************************** Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/

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3.0.3 install on Debian squeeze
by Thomas Krichel 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Yesterday and today installed my first koha system, 3.0.3. I use Debian testing, squeeze. I have a few small suggestions. -1- In the install instructions, don't reference dselect. It is a deprecated tool. Instead, simply make install_misc/debian.squeeze-packages read as apt-get install apache2 apt-get install apache2-mpm-worker etc, and tell folks to "bash" it. -2- The two README files in install_misc/ should really be up in the parent directory -3- in the web installer, I saw something like <form action="/cgi-bin/koha/installer/install.pl" name="checkdbparameters" type="post"> It should be <form action="/cgi-bin/koha/installer/install.pl" name="checkdbparameters" method="POST"> -4- On first perl Makefile, I entered a password say foo&bar. This lands up on line 180 of koha-conf.xml as <pass>foo&bar</pass> and make test croaks on this. The values need to be encoded. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel skype: thomaskrichel

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Geolocalization in Koha
by Pablo A. Bianchi 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

Hi! Does anyone ever thought of adding Geolocation[0] to Koha? Probably using also Google Maps API. Having branches spread over a large territory make this very useful, making the records of the searched material more near first in the result list. Is possible to add some heuristics based on what people usually search for on that zone. There are some freely available databases, but also is possible to create and improve one over time, based on location established on registered and logged users, associating it with their IP address. Regards, Pablo [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolocation

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Foundation forming #koha IRC meeting 29 October
by Thomas Dukleth 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

Please remember that the next Koha foundation forming IRC meeting will be held on #koha 29 October 2009 at 19:00 UTC+0. Time Converters: http://tinyurl.com/yjvlsam http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2009-10-29%2019:00%20UTC+0 Agenda: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:events:meetings:irc_meetings:meetingnot… It is a wiki. Fix any problems and write your own agenda items. Thomas Dukleth Agogme 109 E 9th Street, 3D New York, NY 10003 USA http://www.agogme.com +1 212-674-3783

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version 3.0.4 on download.koha.org
by LAURENT Henri-Damien 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

Hi, I have just seen that the latest version for 3.0.4 had been uploaded on download.koha.org Thanks to LibLime for doing that. But for sake of not misleading people, I would find that great that people donot have the choice between 2 versions of 3.0.4 Would any liblimer be so kind as to remove the first 3.0.4 tarball since I cannot do it myself, please ? -- Henri-Damien LAURENT Release maintainer 3.0 branch

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Searching with name=
by Marcel de Rooy 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

Hi all, When I search with name= in OPAC or staff, I have exactly the same results as with any=. I checked this with several expressions. When I check the results with yaz-client, I noted different results for a find with 1=1002 (name) and 1=1016 (any). Somehow the search with name= does not get mapped correctly to 1=1002 (somewhere in opac-search.pl or Search.pm or in ZOOM). Searching with personal-name= works correctly. Do you have the same results with name as with any on your Koha OPAC or staff? Can someone explain me how I can change the behavior of the searches with name= ? Thanks for responding! Marcel de Rooy

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Document Availability Information API
by Jakob Voss 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Hi, I just sent this mail to Code4Lib mailing list that not everyone may follow. I am not familiar with Koha source code and database internals so could you point me to where availability status and such (loan period and queue, call number, location...) is stored? I just wanted to announce that I finished a reference implementation of the Document Availability Information API (DAIA) as CPAN module at http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?DAIA. More information about DAIA can be found in the specification at http://purl.org/NET/DAIA and at http://www.gbv.de/wikis/cls/DAIA. The basic structure is: [Document] -- 1-to-n --> [Item] [Item ]-- 1-to-n --> [Service] (which is either [Available] or [Unavailable]) We created DAIA for German library networks as interchange format and API to encode information about the current availability of a specific document (or any copy of it) in a given library. There are numerous APIs for several tasks in library systems (SRU/SRW, Z39.50, OpenSearch, OAI-PMH, Atom, unAPI etc.) but no standard way to just query whether a copy of given - for instance book - is available in a library, in which department, whether you can loan it or only use it in the library (or even read it online) or if it is not available how long it will probably take until it is available again. Obviously such an API would be helpful not only to connect different library systems but to create mashups and services ("Show me on a map, where a given book is currently hold and available", "Send me a tweet if a given books in my library is available again" etc.). DAIA was createt to fill this gap. In the context of ILS Discovery Interface Task Force and its official recommendation (http://diglib.org/architectures/ilsdi/) DAIA fits to the GetAvailability method (section 6.3.1). At the moment the format and API are pretty stable so the main work is to create server and client components for several ILS software. Every library has its own special rules and schemas - Jonathan Rochkind already wrote about the problems to implement DAIA because of ILS complexity: http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/daia-and-ils-complexity/ . We cannot erase this complexity by magic (unless we refactor and clean the ILS) but at least we can try to map it to a common data model which DAIA provides. With the DAIA Perl package you can concentrate on writing the wrapper without dealing with DAIA parsing and serialization issues. Why should everyone write its own routines to grab for instance the HTML OPAC output to parse availability status? One mapping to DAIA should fit most needs, so others can build upon. A public DAIA converter/validator is available at http://ws.gbv.de/daia/validator Extensions to DAIA can be discussion in the Code4Lib Wiki http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/DAIA_extensions but I'd prefer no to start with the extensions but with basic services. If you have more cool ideas for client applications, just let me know! Cheers, Jakob P.S: Yes, there are some other awkward attemts to encode availability (Z39.50 Holdings, ISO 20775 Holdings, NCIP, SLNP...) but I found all of them underdefined and not publically documented or openly usable based on Web standards. -- Jakob Voß <jakob.voss(a)gbv.de>, skype: nichtich Verbundzentrale des GBV (VZG) / Common Library Network Platz der Goettinger Sieben 1, 37073 Göttingen, Germany +49 (0)551 39-10242, http://www.gbv.de

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Git and Koha v3.0.4
by Chadwick, John, DCA 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

I am trying to use git to update an install on a development box before we go to the production server. Today I started a directory for the koha clone on my development box. The directory is kohaclonetest When I use git to download a clone I end up with version 3.00.01.061. I have one branch called master. I then issue the command: git checkout -b stable304 v3.00.04 I am now in branch stable304 I issue the following commands: perl Makefile.PL --prev-install-log /usr/share/koha/misc/koha-install-log make make test make upgrade So far, so good. Now we should be required to update the koha database. When we navigate to http://localhost:8080 <http://localhost:8080/> we are presented with the regular login screen, no required database updates. When we go into the koha staff side the version is still showing 3.00.01.061. John +----------------------------------------------------------------------- -----+ John Chadwick, Ed.D. Information Technology Manager New Mexico State Library 1209 Camino Carlos Rey Santa Fe, NM 87507 Phone: 505-476-9740 Cell: 505-629-8116 Fax: 505-476-9761 john.chadwick(a)state.nm.us http://www.nmstatelibrary.org Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including all attachments is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited unless specifically provided under the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this message. -- This email has been scanned by the Sybari - Antigen Email System. ______________________________________________________________________ Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail,including all attachments is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review,use,disclosure or distribution is prohibited unless specifically provided under the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this message. This email has been scanned using Webroot Email Security. ______________________________________________________________________

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Re: [Koha-devel] PDF file interrupted loading
by Thomas Dukleth 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

Reply inline: Original Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] [KOHA-Consort] Final Results for Koha Foundation Options On Mon, October 26, 2009 22:41, Nicole Engard wrote: > I added another PDF for those with issues -if it doesn't work I can't > help you - it has to be something with the upload process to the wiki. Nicole, do you or anyone else have a clue about what the "something with the upload process" to the wiki may have caused the interrupted PDF file loading problem for some? I had the same problem as others had with the original PDF file for the poll results in this poll and the previous poll. I have the seen the problem on other rare occasions. I have supposed a problem such as an end of file character in the middle of the file but that may not fit the actual case. Thomas Dukleth Agogme 109 E 9th Street, 3D New York, NY 10003 USA http://www.agogme.com +1 212-674-3783 [...]

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