"Mark Tompsett" <mtompset@hotmail.com>
I feel this is a big issue: we shouldn't be encouraging people in bad security habits, like to run random scripts as root or let them sudo.
You did a koha install WITHOUT using sudo or logging in as root? How did you configure apache, mysql, and the hundreds of perl dependencies?
Apache was configured through some control panel (ispconfig maybe?) and the sysadmin was happy enough to configure mysql to utf-8 which was all that was needed back then. Perl dependencies weren't fun, but cpan shell supports PREFIX installs, then you just add a bit to the SetEnv PERL5LIB in the Apache config. [...]
Take a look at bug 8840. I think this script could be generalized to include Debian. However, since the problem was Ubuntu, and not Debian, we didn't.
It's OK but I agree it does seem to be rather Ubuntu-specific at the mo. By the way (looking at the other replies), I think it is apt-get that is breaking, as "sudo dselect install" and "sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade" are the same thing. So if this multiarch bug isn't fixed in the OS, it may bite us later no matter what we do. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/