I agree with all of you. And must add that a while ago I started the rewrite of the Ubuntu install files (look at the first commit on that bug), after which Mark put his hands on it and now we've got this fresh install instructions. For that purpose I set (on our infrastructure) both a 10.04 and 12.04 Ubuntu Server setups to test and QA those install instructions. Both are 64bit, hence when I signed-off on those instructions, I meant to say I fully tested them to work for amd64 arch. INSTALL files where way too old, and that made them difficult to maintain. If what we need is volunteers, I already volunteered for Ubuntu files. Regards To+ On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 1:12 AM, Mark Tompsett <mtompset@hotmail.com> wrote:
Greetings,
Yes, I was hoping to getting around to cleaning up the documentation further. However until I have a 64-bit OS to attempt to install, I can't really address all the problems some people are encountering. Which bugs me, because I want good documentation for all three types of installs.
The problem is you can't write step-by-step documentation for each OS, because a tarball install under Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS are all going to encounter different problems. Similarly, a git install will as well. You can only write "here's a problem you may encounter and here's an example of how to handle it". This gets compounded into a people looking for a step-by-step guide, and they'll keep hunting until they find one regardless of how dated it is.
I believe the http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_Ubuntu is a good place for a basic set of tarball instructions. The problem then becomes OS specific when trying to install dependencies like http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_3.6_on_Centos_6.2_i386. This is another reason packages is a better way: the dependencies should all be there.
GPML, Mark Tompsett