[Koha-devel] Koha 3.8.4 on Ubuntu server 12.04

[Paul]

Koha 3.8.4 on Ubuntu server 12.04 LTS including importing an existing 3.6.1 
database.

Finally got my trials and tribulations behind me, 3.8.4 up and running (now 
on to detail, customization and pre-production testing.)

A couple of points following previous threads (YMMV, but this worked 
without a single error for me this morning):

1) Use ubuntu-12.04.1-server-amd64.iso (598,902,661 bytes) which replaces 
ubuntu-12.04-server-amd64.iso (717,533,184 bytes) -- I'm not certain what 
the hiccough was, but there have been considerable changes made. This 
latest ISO, much smaller than the previous one, allowed everything below 
normally.

2) Add the debian.koha-community.org/koha repository to 
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/koha.list before looking for dependencies.

3) Before using dpkg, dselect from the Koha .gz, $ sudo apt-get install 
libtemplate-plugin-htmltotext-perl zip unzip yaz idzebra-2.0 daemon dselect 
libyaz4 libyaz4-dev libnet-z3950-zoom-perl libxml-libxslt-perl 
libgraphics-magick-perl liblingua-stem-snowball-perl libtemplate-perl 
liblingua-ispell-perl libhtml-template-pro-perl libreadonly-xs-perl 
libtest-strict-perl

4) Koha will try to install (and report "missing/not required") 
DBD::SQLite2 which as far as I can tell is superceded by 
libdbd-sqlite3-perl (i.e version 3) which I installed.  'Make test' will 
report it, but 'make install' is fully functional.

5) After installing and configuring Mysql, Koha and Apache2, doing the 
following *in this order* allowed clean updating of a db restore, Zebra 
indexing and zebra incremental cron:

a) Verify from a workstation browser: http://koha3 ==> OPAC (will report 
"under maintenance.") Do NOT YET verify http://koha-admin3 ==> Staff client 
login

b) NOW restore a working copy of a working db:

c) http://koha-admin3 ==> Staff client login will go through "upgrade" process

d) Setup Zebra daemon at boot

e) Reindex Zebra (auths and biblios)

f) Set up cron Zebra incremental

Thanks to all involved, best regards,
Paul