[Koha-devel] Lets improve the Koha installation documentation

Mason James mtj at kohaaloha.com
Thu Aug 23 16:41:51 CEST 2012


On 2012-08-23, at 4:12 PM, Mark Tompsett 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.

nope, i disagree…  its perfectly possible to write step-by-step documentation for each OS


> 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.


yes, so lets remove the incorrect guides from the wiki, so people won't accidentally 'find' them.



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