Tomas, My vote is for the current LTS revisions only (lucid and precise, the

first being outdated for master i guess, not sure). Their 2-year release cycle seems to be enough for having a fair recent version of the required libs. So, this files might need being updated/deleted and new ones created:

INSTALL.ubuntu INSTALL.ubuntu.lucid ubuntu_maverick.packages (delete or at least rename!) ubuntu.packages ubuntu-pkg-check.sh

I propose:

INSTALL.ubuntu.lucid INSTALL.ubuntu.precise install_misc/ubuntu_lucid.packages install_misc/ubuntu_precise.packages

+1 from me. Regards, Jared -- Jared Camins-Esakov Bibliographer, C & P Bibliography Services, LLC (phone) +1 (917) 727-3445 (e-mail) jcamins@cpbibliography.com (web) http://www.cpbibliography.com/

Greetings, I'd like to point out that development generally occurs in Debian-based environment, so descendent-OS' should work, but are not as well supported. The organization I am with has more people familiar with Ubuntu than Debian, so I chose Ubuntu for the purposes of having someone else being able to take over. I hope the following ramble is useful somehow. Tomas wrote:

$ dselect --set-selections install_misc/ubuntu.packages $ dselect install

I think you meant to have a '<' in there. :) Actually, as I was not familiar with and am still not familiar with the packages, I did not include them in my reworking of the instructions on the wiki: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_Ubuntu There are still some things I'd like to update on it, but haven't gotten around to it yet. Also, I suppose I just prefer to keep Ubuntu things Ubuntu and Debian things Debian. That's just my personal preference. You have correctly pointed out that the ubuntu.packages and other non-debian files are out of date, need renaming, or are sometimes confusing. This is why I worked on updating the wiki page, as I didn't have a development system at the time. There is a perl script, koha_perl_deps.pl -m, which lists missing things, and it is possible to transform Blah::blah into an 'aptitude search': $ aptitude search blah-blah-perl which might be business-isbn-perl, for example. There was 1 OPTIONAL dependency that my development system had to borrow from an external, non-default repo while setting up my development system under Ubuntu 12.04. This would mean that installing from packages are probably okay and generally recommended (see Chris Cormack's email), though it is not my personal preference under Ubuntu. However, Chris' email suggests there are packages for Ubuntu. I think I may go looking. At this time, as 3.6.X and 3.8.X are the two active versions, even though Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is supported until next year, it doesn't make sense to try to support it. Both 10.04 LTS and 12.04 LTS work with both active versions of Koha, though 12.04 plays nicer in terms of most dependencies are in the default repositories, particularly for 3.6.X. Though, it doesn't make sense to install 3.6.X now, given that 3.10 will come out in a few months. And at least one of those bug reports you reference is mine. :) GPML, Mark Tompsett