[Koha-devel] Lets improve the Koha installation documentation

[Tomas Cohen Arazi]

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 at 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