Hi. If one wants to develop Koha, one needs to set up a computer with all the necessary software installed. To simplify this for those of us using Debian squeeze (the current testing/development version), I made a .deb package that does that. (This is unfortunately helpful for those not using Debian.) It is called koha-dev-env, the current version is 0.1, and it is available via apt if you add the following to your sources.list: deb http://debian.catalyst.net.nz/catalyst stable catalyst After that, this should work: apt-get update apt-get install koha-dev-env There is a public git repository for the package: git clone git://git.catalyst.net.nz/koha-dev-env.git The package depends on a number of other Debian packages which provide CPAN modules that Koha requires. Some of the CPAN modules are not (yet) packaged for Debian (at least not in squeeze), so the package's postinst script installs them via the cpan command. This is the first step in my plan to create a Debian package for Koha. The rest of the plan is, roughly: * Prepare Debian packages for all CPAN modules Koha needs that are not in Debian yet. * Work with Debian to get all the CPAN modules included in Debian. * Prepare a simplistic Koha package. * Improve on Koha package, based on experiences on using it in various installations. * When Koha package is of sufficient quality, upload it to Debian. There may be some things that Koha will need to change, to make packaging it for Debian easier. For example, Koha currently declares that it wants Storable 2.21 from CPAN, when Debian only has 2.20. If the newer version is not actually required, it would be good to bump that down to what Debian has. All feedback, and bug reports, are welcome. I'm happy with them coming to the list, where others can join the discussion, or to me directly.