[Koha-devel] Koha on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

[Giuseppe Angilella]

Dear Mark,

many thanks: your suggestions did help, in the sense that it looked to 
think apt-get that the missing packages had been installed, which allowed 
me to overcome the "unmet dependencies" error.

However, after having Koha installed and configured, I couldn't open the 
browser interface, because of "software errors".

After inspection, it turned out that the missing MARC/perl packages had 
been manually installed in non-standard directories.

E.g.

dpkg-deb -c libmarc-xml-perl_0.4-1_all.deb

drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-05-05 15:56 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-05-05 15:56 ./home/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-05-05 15:56 ./home/<username>/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-05-05 15:56 ./home/<username>/perl5/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-05-05 15:56 ./home/<username>/perl5/lib/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-05-05 15:56 ./home/<username>/perl5/lib/perl5/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-05-05 15:56 ./home/<username>/perl5/lib/perl5/MARC/
-rw-r--r-- root/root     33884 2000-04-24 03:36 ./home/<username>/perl5/lib/perl5/MARC/XML.pm
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-05-05 15:56 ./home/<username>/perl5/man/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-05-05 15:56 ./home/<username>/perl5/man/man3/
-rw-r--r-- root/root     15519 2018-05-05 15:56 ./home/<username>/perl5/man/man3/MARC::XML.3pm
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-05-05 15:56 ./usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-05-05 15:56 ./usr/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-05-05 15:56 ./usr/share/doc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-05-05 15:56 ./usr/share/doc/libmarc-xml-perl/
-rw-r--r-- root/root       807 2000-01-25 19:26 ./usr/share/doc/libmarc-xml-perl/README
-rw-r--r-- root/root       141 2018-05-05 15:56 ./usr/share/doc/libmarc-xml-perl/changelog.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1791 2018-05-05 15:56 ./usr/share/doc/libmarc-xml-perl/copyright
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-05-05 15:56 ./usr/share/doc/libmarc-xml-perl/examples/
-rw-r--r-- root/root       807 2000-01-25 19:26 ./usr/share/doc/libmarc-xml-perl/examples/README
-rw-r--r-- root/root       501 1999-11-22 01:43 ./usr/share/doc/libmarc-xml-perl/examples/marc2xml.pl
-rw-r--r-- root/root      4077 2000-01-25 20:56 ./usr/share/doc/libmarc-xml-perl/examples/pacific.pl
-rw-r--r-- root/root     17854 2000-01-18 16:06 ./usr/share/doc/libmarc-xml-perl/examples/pacific0.dat.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1923 2000-01-25 21:53 ./usr/share/doc/libmarc-xml-perl/examples/read_pfa.pl
-rw-r--r-- root/root       511 1999-11-23 22:45 ./usr/share/doc/libmarc-xml-perl/examples/simple.pl
-rw-r--r-- root/root       509 1999-11-22 01:47 ./usr/share/doc/libmarc-xml-perl/examples/xml2marc.pl

where <username> is my own home directory.

I even tried to execute your commands as sudo su, but this didn't help.

I then looked on http://packages.ubuntu.com for the location where each 
package would place its files in Ubuntu 16.04, say

https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/all/libmarc-xml-perl/filelist

and started moving files to the correct location one by one. This enabled 
me to overcome some initial errors, but produced new (similar) ones. Of 
course this is not the clean way to proceed ...

Is there a configuration parameter that I am missing, in order to instruct 
cpan2deb (or dpkg) to install the relevant files in the 
appropriate/standard directories?

Many thanks and best regards,

Giuseppe.

> Date: Tue, 1 May 2018 12:29:32 +0000
> From: Mark Tompsett <mtompset at hotmail.com>
> To: "koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org"
> 	<koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org>
> Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Koha on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
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> Greetings,
>
> When this happens, I prefer to package, however haphazardly, them.
>
> cd ~
> mkdir dhmake
> sudo apt-get install dh-make-perl
> cd dhmake
> cpan2deb Marc::Charset
> yes
> sudo
> -- should be noted some people don't like that answer. *shrug* I just go
> with it.
> sudo dpkg -i libmarc-charset-perl_<tab><enter>
> -- it should auto-complete the entire deb name
> sudo apt-get install libmarc-perl
> -- I figured out this is a prerequisite for libmarc-xml-perl
> cpan2deb Marc::XML
> sudo dpkg -i  libmarc-xml-perl_<tab><enter>
>
> In this case, these are easy. And I do it this way, so that if either make
> it into default repos as newer versions, they will get upgraded with sudo
> apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade
>
> GPML,
> Mark Tompsett
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Giuseppe Angilella
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2018 8:11 AM
> To: koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org
> Subject: [Koha-devel] Koha on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to migrate my Koha installation from an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
> "Xenial" [virtual] machine to a new machine, running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
> "Bionic Beaver".
>
> Immediately after issuing the installation command:
>
> sudo apt-get install koha-common
>
> I get the error:
>
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  koha-common : Depends: libmarc-charset-perl but it is not installable
>                Depends: libmarc-xml-perl but it is not installable
>
> Indeed, these two dependencies are not [yet] implemented for Ubuntu 18.04,
> as of https://packages.ubuntu.com .
>
> Any suggestion?
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Giuseppe.
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