[Koha-devel] Lets improve the Koha installation documentation

[Mark Tompsett]

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