Greetings, Paul,

 

Just some final details. Because I think there was some instructional misunderstandings...

 

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$ 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

libhtml-template-pro-perl

libreadonly-xs-perl

libtest-strict-perl

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The point was all the libraries you needed are there. I probably typed this in a command line earlier and forgot to include it. I did note that I had some apt-file searches for which I didn’t put a sudo apt-get install command line done. Sorry about that.

 

 

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$ sudo dpkg --set-selections < install_misc/ubuntu.packages

$ sudo dselect

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Did you grab the ubuntu.packages from 3.6.7 or 3.6.8? That is the correct one. That's why I was noting my patch didn't make it into 3.8.X.

I hope to solve this before 3.8.5 comes out.

 

 

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FYI, getting Robin's pgp required a couple of steps that you did not mention. Using:

 

$ wget http://debian.koha-community.org/koha/gpg.asc | sudo apt-key add -

 

gives the error "GPG error: http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release: The

following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not

available: NO_PUBKEY 14D36485A99CEB6D"

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That isn’t what I said to type:

wget -O- http://debian.koha-community.org/koha/gpg.asc | sudo apt-key add -

 

and that isn’t what is on the wiki:

http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_3.8_on_Debian_Squeeze (under the Everyone title)

 

 

>>Which way should you do?

>>Are you going to develop, submit patches, etc for a non-production system?

>>If yes, then (3) GIT!

>>Are you using a debian-based OS? If yes, then (1) Packages!

>>For everything else, there is (2) Tarball.

 

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While I'd love to have time to "submit patches", I juts seem to spend too

much time maintaining a production system.  I do not use a pure Debian

system, but Ubuntu for all our servers and workstations.  Hence your "For

everything else, there is tarball."

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I didn’t say Debian, I said debian-based, which includes Ubuntu. I know the packages work, because I have done a packages install, just to understand the three ways of installing. In fact, I think it only installed 3 things from the debian.koha-community.org repository while doing it too. I was pleased by such a low number.

 

Anyways, I’m glad these tips helped point you in the right direction.

 

GPML,

Mark Tompsett