[Koha-win32] Much Assistance Required for Setting-Up and Utilising Koha

[David Litwin]

To Whom it May Concern:

I have rather Recently downloaded Koha, MySQL and Apache for Windows 
2000 Pro. I installed all three and they all appear to be Installed 
Correctly. Now, all that needs to be done is the Configuration.

Easier Said than Done.

Firstly, I have very little Prior Knowledge about Databases and 
Webservers. I'm a Quick Study, though, and can Usually Figure Out what I 
am Supposed to Accomplish.

Now then, having read the Koha Manual, it states in Book 1: For the 
Librarian I. T. Support Staff, under Option 1: Automated Configuration, 
that I simply have to run perl installer.pl and follow the Steps.

Alas!, for Firstly, the Said File does not Exist. The closest thing 
which I can Locate in installer.pl. Having run that, it says: "You seem 
to be installing from CVS. Please run the "buildrelease" script and 
install from the resulting release tarball." Firstly, it would appear to 
me that I did some thing wrong: It wants me to run another Script. So, I 
search my Computer for buildrelease. It turns out to be 
buildrelease.orig located in C:\usr\koha123\intranet\cgi-bin\koha. When 
I run it, it asks me what Programme I wish to use to Open it. I choose 
Perl Command Line Interpreter. This programme goes on to say that the 
scrip will automatically build a release tarrball, which sounds very 
much like it is going to do some thing for Linux, which, as I stated, I 
do not have. It says that it assumes that I have the koha and koha-html 
modules checked out for the release that I want to build, although, it 
will will build them any way. It then goes on to ask me where the koha 
cvs module is.

So, what I supposed to do here? I tried searching for "CVS", but it 
didn't find any thing. Did I do some thing wrong, or, does it just not 
want to work for me?

I Thank you Kindly in Advance.

                                                                         
               Sincerely,
                                                                         
                              David Litwin