[Koha-devel] OpenSUSE

[David Cook]

Hey Mark:

I looked at those wiki instructions for OpenSUSE a while ago too, and they
are rather terrifyingly long. I think it's completely unnecessary to mention
how to install OpenSUSE. Since, if a person had the option, it would make
more sense from a community support perspective just to go with Debian or
Ubuntu. 

I'm not familiar with Debian at all at this point, except as a front-end
user, but I don't see why the debian repositories "would" work. That said, I
remember Chris Cormack saying that it might not be a bad idea for someone to
put together RPM packages. I seem to remember him also mentioning that
OpenSUSE is quite common amongst Indian Koha users, so maybe someone out
there has a script for creating and disseminating RPMs. 


David Cook
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Prosentient Systems P/L
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dcook at prosentient.com.au


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From: "Mark Tompsett" <mtompset at hotmail.com>
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Subject: [Koha-devel] OpenSUSE
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Greetings,

A person I know was telling me about a project they have in OpenSUSE. So, I 
downloaded it. I'm installing it. And then I thought, "Hey, does Koha work 
on this?"
The installation is downloading RPM's after all. So, I looked on the Wiki 
for OpenSUSE.

I thought my Ubuntu tarball instructions were super-long. These instructions

even tell the person how to install OpenSUSE?! Isn't that a tad out of 
scope? Next, these are for 3.0, which again is out of date. And lastly, 
these are so tarball oriented, when I currently have no reason to believe 
that the debian repositories won't work.

Any thoughts?

GPML,
Mark Tompsett