[Koha-devel] 3.8.4 interim [was: koha-zebra-daemon not starting]

[Mason James]

On 2012-08-22, at 12:39 PM, Paul wrote:

> At 08:06 AM 8/22/2012 +0800, [someone, because this is not personal] wrote:
>> A package install is relatively easy. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but it goes something like:
>> 1) mysqldump your Koha database.
>> 2) Try following the instructions on http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_3.8_on_Debian_Squeeze
>>   (You probably will have some questions as you go along, so feel free to ask. Questions will help improve the documentation.)
>> 3) Before the webinstall step, import your mysqldump.
>> 4) Run webinstall.
>> 5) Everything should be in place afterwards.
>> The difference between a tarball install and a packages install is mostly the resulting directory structure locations of things. However, you get the added advantage of access to other scripts which people constantly refer to on the lists, but never really apply for tarball installations.
> 
> OK -- now I'm totally confused (end of the day, tired) but I got fed up on the last "attempt" at 3.8.3 (same results on a brand new install, wiped the server totally clean), then saw that Chris had announced 3.8.4, so wiped the server again, and it's worse than before [see below] because "apparently???" dpkg / dselect  is attempting an i386 package for libxml2, and I end up with 5 modules "required" and four "listed" but not required.
> 
> Now, I did the koha-3.08.04 via wget and suddenly learn that "package" is different from "tarball". Is the tarball different? or invalid? (see below for the i386 error.) I've been using tyarballs for years (and Koha in particular since 3.4.? through the whole 3.6 series) so do I have to change?

a 'package' is a .deb file, 	see -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb_(file_format)
a 'tar ball' is a tar file , 	see -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(file_format)


http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_3.8_on_Debian_Squeeze
http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Building_Debian_Packages_-_The_Easy_Way
http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Commands_provided_by_the_Debian_packages