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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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Can't call method "append_fields"
by constantine 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

Yes, the previous problem was solved, indeed... I do not understand why I have so many problems installing koha,.. maybe the last years I was too used to Joomla! installations :D So the challenging koha that its concept I so much admire and embrace makes me face another problem. Trying to add a MARC record, (I retrieved its data from a z30.50 server, but that does not matter, I think) and then I am getting an error page (http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/additem.pl) Its contents are: " Koha error The following fatal error has occurred: Can't call method "append_fields" on an undefined value at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/MARC/File/SAX.pm line 95. at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0/XML/LibXML/SAX.pm line 64 at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/MARC/File/XML.pm line 443 Apache Server version: Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) Server built: Jun 21 2008 10:35:35 Koha 3.00.00.094 Koha DB 3.0000094 MySQL mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.51a, for debian-linux-gnu (i486) using readline 5.2 OS Linux sangre 2.6.25.9xx6-costis07 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jul 2 02:35:38 EEST 2008 i686 GNU/Linux Perl 5.010000 " The laste contens of /var/log/koha/koha-error_log are [...] [error] [...] [...] addbiblio.pl: INDEXING :orignew at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 2319., referer: http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/addbiblio.pl?biblionumber=0&… [...] [error] [...] [...] addbiblio.pl: INDEXING :1 at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 2319., referer: http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/addbiblio.pl?biblionumber=0&… [...] [error] [...] [...] addbiblio.pl: INDEXING :ocip at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 2319., referer: http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/addbiblio.pl?biblionumber=0&… [...] [error] [...] [...] addbiblio.pl: INDEXING :20 at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 2319., referer: http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/addbiblio.pl?biblionumber=0&… [...] [error] [...] [...] addbiblio.pl: INDEXING :y-gencatlg at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 2319., referer: http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/addbiblio.pl?biblionumber=0&… [...] [error] [...] [...] addbiblio.pl: INDEXING :ddc at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 2319., referer: http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/addbiblio.pl?biblionumber=0&… [...] [error] [...] [...] addbiblio.pl: INDEXING :SR at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 2319., referer: http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/addbiblio.pl?biblionumber=0&… [...] [error] [...] [...] addbiblio.pl: INDEXING :pc15 2006-07-19 to SSCD at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 2319., referer: http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/addbiblio.pl?biblionumber=0&… [...] [error] [...] [...] addbiblio.pl: INDEXING :jp00 2006-07-26 CIP recd at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 2319., referer: http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/addbiblio.pl?biblionumber=0&… [...] [error] [...] [...] addbiblio.pl: INDEXING :jp20 2006-07-26 to subj at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 2319., referer: http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/addbiblio.pl?biblionumber=0&… [...] [error] [...] [...] addbiblio.pl: INDEXING :jp03 2006-07-26 at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 2319., referer: http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/addbiblio.pl?biblionumber=0&… [...] [error] [...] [...] addbiblio.pl: INDEXING :aa05 2006-07-27 at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 2319., referer: http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/addbiblio.pl?biblionumber=0&… [...] [error] [...] [...] addbiblio.pl: INDEXING :1 at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 2319., referer: http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/addbiblio.pl?biblionumber=0&… [...] [error] [...] [...] addbiblio.pl: INDEXING :1 at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 2319., referer: http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/addbiblio.pl?biblionumber=0&… [...] [debug] mod_deflate.c(619): [...] Zlib: Compressed 37993 to 5966 : URL /cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/additem.pl, referer: http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/addbiblio.pl?biblionumber=0&… [...] [error] [...] [...] additem.pl: Can't call method "append_fields" on an undefined value at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/MARC/File/SAX.pm line 95. at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0/XML/LibXML/SAX.pm line 64, referer: http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/additem.pl?biblionumber=1&fr… [...] [error] [...] [...] additem.pl: at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/MARC/File/XML.pm line 443, referer: http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/additem.pl?biblionumber=1&fr… What could I do to solve this problem? Tsardounis Constantine http://costis.name _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel(a)nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel(a)lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel

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Koha on a deb file
by Pablo A. Bianchi 14 Aug '09

14 Aug '09

Hi! Some months ago Chris Cormack said this[0] about having Koha on a deb file. I have always dreamed about the day where we can install last stable version of Koha just typing "apt-get install koha". How far do we are from that? Where are the problems to achieve this dream? With Perl modules? -- Pablo [0] http://lists.koha.org/pipermail/koha-devel/2008-December/008762.html http://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2007-January/011014.html

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Barcode Not Found
by Roche III, Edward 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

Good afternoon all. Brief History for that have not seen my other posts. We are trying to migrate to Koha from Follett, when biblio info is exported from Follett the barcodes have zeros add in place of a space, T 12345 comes out as T0012345. I updated my records and re-import the barcode field and but when I try to check out a book it tells me barcode not found. I have be trying some different thing with Mike Hafen. We have come to find that Koha is reading the barcode correctly but just isn't finding it in the DB. We have found that the DB is pretty much set to latin1 as the character set but when I created the DB I select UTF-8 and I also converted the export data from Follett to UTF-8. Do I need to change the char set for the whole MySQL or is that a non-issue. I really have like this product but out librarians have said they will not re-barcode because on average they have 16k+ items that they would have to change. I am at wits end with this issue and I would hate to be able to use Koha because it is everything we want except for this issue. If anyone has seen this before please let me know your thoughts. Thanks Ed Edward J. Roche Network Administrator Solanco School District 717.786.2151 x2437 "At the End of the Day, Did You Play to Win or Not to Lose?"

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RFC : More granular rules for Reserves
by Nahuel ANGELINETTI 15 Jun '09

15 Jun '09

Hi all, We are trying to find the great way to do more granular rules for reserves. I think the faster way is to patch the actual reserves system, but we are not sure of our solutions is the better one, so we are asking you for comments. The reserves will be edited via smart-rules.pl, this will allow to have rules by branch, category(of borrowers), and item type. * Which branch to use? Our first question was this, we decided to use circcontrol syspref, it seems to be the best choice. * Then, comes the question how to manage if the circcontrol's value is item's holding or home branch and the holding doesn't specify the item to reserve but the record reserved. The solution we propose, is to check if the borrower have remaining reserve rights to one of all the libraries which have an item of this record, if yes, so we allow the reserve. Next step, is the check-in of the item, at each check-in, we will check the reserve queue for the record, and the remaining reserves rights of the user in this library, if it's true, we allow the librarian to put the document in the "waiting to checkout" queue. The problem we see with this way to do, is if the user checkout any of his other reserves, the rights at the check-in times won't be the same as when he did the reserve. So he will have more rights than he had, and he will be able to do more reserves than allowed(if no library is specified). Can we consider we don't care? Or perhaps someone have another idea? Or perhaps we can force the user to choose one of the items if circcontrol value isn't one of the item's branch? Waiting for your comments, bests, -- Nahuel ANGELINETTI

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Koha Virtual Appliances
by Kyle Hall 28 May '09

28 May '09

Hey all, I have finished uploading a new set of Koha virtual appliances. Each version is available in VirtualBox or VMWare formats, and in configured and unconfigured states. At the moment, there are versions for the 3.01 official release, and versions for 3.01.00.032, which was the latest from git.koha.org at the time it was created. The url is http://kylehall.info/index.php/projects/koha/koha-virtual-appliance/ . I created a login for koha.org ( kylemhall ), but I do not know how to edit or add new pages. If anyone wants to put a page on koha.org for the virtual appliances, you have my permission to use/modify the text from my own site however you wish. These version also have the curses based front end, kohamc, which I mentioned. In the vm's, it's the shell for the root account. The version in the 3.01 release is newer. I am very interested in getting feedback about it. I think it would be great to expand this app to allow it to run rebuild_zebra with whatever options a person might want, and any other koha related activities that require cli work. Let me know what you think. I forgot to add the GPL to the top, so I hereby release the code to kohamc under the GPL v2. If anyone here is familiar with perl/curses, is there a way to allow the script to temporarily drop to a bash session, then return when a user types exit? Kyle http://www.kylehall.info Information Technology Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org ) _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel(a)nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel

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Checkout 3.1 from Git
by Kyle Hall 26 May '09

26 May '09

Hey All, I'm in the process of uploading a set of latest version Koha vm's. I'll let you know when they are available. What I'd like to know is if there is a way to check out the released 3.1 via git. I see there are tags such as v3.00.01-stable_update but as far as I can google, there is no way to check out a tag. Does anyone have any advice. One of the reason for this is I have written a perl/curses based management console to make using the Koha vm even easier. Before, you had to log in and find your ip via ifconfig. Now when you log in as root, you are presented with a management interface that will tell you what version of Koha you are running, what your ip is, and allow updating via git, restarting apache, and restarting the zebra daemons all from a menu system. It's still a work in progress. I'd like to add even more control to it eventually. If I don't install Koha 3.1 via git, the update command will break. So, does anyone know how I can pull Koha 3.1 from git? Thanks, Kyle http://www.kylehall.info Information Technology Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org ) _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel(a)nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel

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Koha events
by Andrei V. Toutoukine 26 May '09

26 May '09

Hi All, I'm wondering if anyone ever wanted events in Koha? Events may be like onpatronremove, onbibliosave, onbiblionew etc... For example if one wants to check spelling and marc-correctness of the record before it is saved to the database one could put either 'default' or home-made perl script to a special place like $KOHA/events/scripts/ and make links to these scripts from $KOHA/events/onbibliosave/ folder. Every time koha saves a biblio it calls scripts from $KOHA/events/onbibliosave/ in default order provided by fs passing there all the information on biblio available at the moment. Events may be used for statistics, checks, adding some automatically and dynamically calculated defaults... Probably some WUI would be nice but I can't see it's implementation right now. Everyone is welcome to the discussion!

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Suggestion: Mysql backup from Koha
by Vimal Kumar 26 May '09

26 May '09

Dear Koha Developers, Here is a suggestion for coming Koha release. Librarians need a user friendly interface to export Koha Mysql database for back up purpose. This feature will reduce the difficulties of daily backup using manual methods (using commands). PMB open source ILS added this feature successfully. With thanks, -- Vimal Kumar V. Asst. Librarian Asian School of Business Technopark, Trivandrum-695 581 Web: www.vimalkumar.co.nr Blog: http://vimalkumar.oksociety.in OK Society Volunteer. http://oksociety.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White

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