On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Chris Cormack <chris@bigballofwax.co.nz>wrote:
On 2 October 2012 15:33, Mark Tompsett <mtompset@hotmail.com> wrote:
Greetings,
The “good” thing about this bug is that it only affects people who do git or tarball installs in a multi-arch environment. That is, it affects us as developers, not really the average user of Koha who has hopefully been transitioned to a package install.
Not so unfortunately, most users are still using tarballs. In fact the vast majority of users install from tarball.
Only a very small amount (and it is mostly us developers and those that stumble into #koha) that install from packages. The tarball install should always work too. The packages will do more, but the tarball method should not fail to install.
As to reinforce what Chris said, let me add my grain of salt: http://koha-community.org/download-koha/ says that Koha runs on Linux, that what you need is a LAMP server plus some Perl modules. And if what you want is to download something, the you go to a page filled with tarballs. Install from ".deb" might be easier, if you use Debian or the like, but installing from tarballs should not be impossible, nor faulty! Koha is NOT a Debian only software. And the same thing is about INSTALL(s) file(s). In almost 20 years of downloading tarballs, I expect to read "the" INSTALL file to learn how to get a program up and running. In the current situation, you must read ALL install files, then get a cup of coffee and think a lot, and with luck you will find a proper way (if you are not on Debian). Bernardo