[Koha] What kind of IT skills required...?
Hello Sorry, it will definitely be a bunch of silly questions, but I really don't know... What kind of IT skills are required for someone to run Koha on a private server (for a small network of about 6 libraries, each with a very limited collection) and do the maintenance etc? I have been asked to help a little library who would like to have her own server and centralize for the few other libraries of its network. I know Koha very well, I am quite good with computers and training people and all library things. I create websites, I know PhP and MySql (but not really the other languages). But I have never installed or used a server, I have no idea what that involves. Is it like setting a new computer and let's go? Will the server be delivered with Windows or Linux or I don't know what other OS? I will have to organise daily back-ups, is that something easy? I will have to link the server with a website or something like that (I told you I don't know anything), is that really tricky? Do I have to know Perl or can I just install whatever package ares required and that would do it? Are there other important things that I need to know before I may plan to do it...? Ultimately, can I ask someone else to set up the server and I only step in when it's all ready to go? I mean, is that really something that we can ask an IT company to do for us? Many thanks for your help! Sonia. -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/What-kind-of-IT-skills-required-tp4840358p4840358.html Sent from the Koha - Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] What kind of IT skills required...?
Hi Perhaps the best option is to use on of the wonderful liblive cd that auto- install koha very well, if you know perl better, but you can go on anyway Regarding the bac-up it will depend pn you, but with mysql is quite ease and fast Kindest regatds Enviado desde mi iPad, disculpen los errores tipográficos y ortográficos El 26/09/2011, a las 08:26, Smurk sossola...@hotmail.com escribió: Hello Sorry, it will definitely be a bunch of silly questions, but I really don't know... What kind of IT skills are required for someone to run Koha on a private server (for a small network of about 6 libraries, each with a very limited collection) and do the maintenance etc? I have been asked to help a little library who would like to have her own server and centralize for the few other libraries of its network. I know Koha very well, I am quite good with computers and training people and all library things. I create websites, I know PhP and MySql (but not really the other languages). But I have never installed or used a server, I have no idea what that involves. Is it like setting a new computer and let's go? Will the server be delivered with Windows or Linux or I don't know what other OS? I will have to organise daily back-ups, is that something easy? I will have to link the server with a website or something like that (I told you I don't know anything), is that really tricky? Do I have to know Perl or can I just install whatever package ares required and that would do it? Are there other important things that I need to know before I may plan to do it...? Ultimately, can I ask someone else to set up the server and I only step in when it's all ready to go? I mean, is that really something that we can ask an IT company to do for us? Many thanks for your help! Sonia. -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/What-kind-of-IT-skills-required-tp4840358p4840358.html Sent from the Koha - Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Empty file export.pl
Dear all I answer myself and share it with the community .. after checking once and again all logs from Koha,mysql, apache and system logs and found nothing... I moved the sqldump from one koha to another.. at the end I realized that perhaps it is a bug.. and searched intobugzilla and Eureca... *Bug 6301 http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6301* - super librarians can't export bib records from all libraries if indybranches on Kindest Regards Hugo 2011/9/24 ha...@orex.es Hello I am experiencing a strange problem with koha 3.4.4 on ubuntu 10.10, i get sn empty file when i try to export marc and items, from admin-- tools I have tried both marc and marcxml, i have reindexed zebra an everything seems to work propertly, but i only get emoty files from koha The interesting issue is that i have a copy of that server, that exports the data fine Anybody may suggest what is wrong? Kindest regards Enviado desde mi iPad, disculpen los errores tipográficos y ortográficos -- *Hugo Agud - Orex Digital * *www.orex.es* * * Director Avenida Sarriá 29 · 08029 Barcelona http://twitter.com/OrexDigital :http://orexsl.blogspot.comhugoaguda - Tel: 93 539 40 70 Fax: 93 539 33 30 ha...@orex.es · http://www.orex.es/ No imprima este mensaje a no ser que sea necesario. Una tonelada de papel implica la tala de 15 árboles y el consumo de 250.000 litros de agua. Aviso de confidencialidad Este mensaje contiene información que puede ser CONFIDENCIAL y/o de USO RESTRINGIDO. Si usted no es el receptor deseado del mensaje (ni está autorizado a recibirlo por el remitente), no está autorizado a copiar, reenviar o divulgar el mensaje o su contenido. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, por favor, notifíquenoslo inmediatamente y bórrelo de su sistema. ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
[Koha] 2011-10-07 Global bug squashing day - 3.6 String Freeze Sprint
Dear Community! String freeze for 3.6 has been set to 8 October 23:59 UTC. I'd like to propose a Global bug squashing day for October 7th, as a last, concerted effort to get as much as possible from the needs signoff queue into 3.6. Details are here: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/2011-10-07_Global_bug_squashing_day Happy squashing! Magnus Enger ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Sopac2
Hi I said it : we had to hack the code and the installation process is quite hard too, because relies on sphynx among other things. But you may found our hacks on git.biblibre.com locum, insurge, and sopac Hopes that help. -- Henri-Damien LAURENT BibLibre Le 25/09/2011 09:50, Luís Díaz a écrit : Good, glade to know some one could install sopac2 Here just following the install guide, we could not... Thanks 2011/9/22 Nicole Engard neng...@gmail.com mailto:neng...@gmail.com I had a copy of the SOPAC installation guide from BibLibre and translated it to English (the best I could) for the manual: http://manual.koha-community.org/3.6/en/sopac.html if that helps. Nicole On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:13 AM, LAURENT henridam...@koha-fr.org mailto:henridam...@koha-fr.org wrote: Le 20/09/2011 21:09, Luís Díaz a écrit : Hello all, someone have already install SOPAC2 with Koha?? Thanks a lot Hi we successfully installed Sopac2. We had to hack the code in order to make it work and the install is rather painful. But we did. -- Henri-Damien LAURENT BibLibre ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz mailto:Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz mailto:Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
[Koha] Problems in Koha Ver. 3.05.00.011
Dear Koha Users, I have upgraded Koha from 3.03 to 3.05.00.011 through Git. But i m facing some problems in report generation and while printing Purchase order. *1. Whenever i try to build a new report, following message appears on the screen:* *Undefined subroutine C4::Reports::Guided::themelanguage called at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Reports/Guided.pm line 744. * * For help, please send mail to the webmaster (webmaster@madhura-desktop), giving this error message and the time and date of the error. * All required Perl modules have been installed while installing web installer. *2. Purchase orders can not be seen as message appears on the scree*n: *Adobe Reader could not open the file because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged . * We are able to see all other PDF files but can not the purchase orders.We have Adobe reader 9 installed on all the computers. whether the version of Adobe Reader is causing the problem? -- *Regards,* ** *Madhura M.Deodhar* *Librarian *IES Management College and Research Centre VMD Lotlikar Vidya Sankul Opp.Lilavati Hospital, Bandra Reclamation Bandra (West) Mumbai - 50 61378327(direct) 9869385665/9167004647 http://iesmglib.blogspot.com *P **Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.* * * -- *Regards,* ** *Madhura M.Deodhar* *Librarian *IES Management College and Research Centre VMD Lotlikar Vidya Sankul Opp.Lilavati Hospital, Bandra Reclamation Bandra (West) Mumbai - 50 61378327(direct) 9869385665/9167004647 http://iesmglib.blogspot.com *P **Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.* * * ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] What kind of IT skills required...?
Sonia, To host your own server, you'll need some level of comfort with Linux command line operations. I recommend a Debian Squeeze server. You can either purchase a new physical machine, or create a virtual server on an existing machine or in the cloud. You can quickly fire up a server in the cloud using services like Amazon Web Computing, Rackspace or Linode. This saves you from having to install an operating system on a piece of physical or virtual hardware. Once you've got the server up and running, you'll need to install Koha. You can do so from the packages, from the git repository or from the downloadable tarballs. Personally, I recommend the git installation, but my understanding is that the packages are a little more user-friendly at the installation phase. Are you going to be developing on Koha at all? If so, then a git installation is definitely the way to go, so you can track your local changes, and format them in a way to submit back to Koha! In addition to installing Koha itself, you'll need to install it's dependencies. That includes MySQL (with which you said you were familiar), Zebra and Apache (Perl is almost always installed by default). The installation instructions for Koha will walk you through those steps. Further, if you want your Koha install to be able to send email notices, you'll want to install and configure an MTA (Message Transfer Agent). I recommend Postfix, but exim4 also works. The default SendMail also works, but I've found it a bit less flexible and thus a little more frustrating. You'll also need to be comfortable with the crontab, so you can set up nightly jobs like fines, overdue notices, and backups. This is one part syntax (knowing how to put an entry on crontab) and one part text editor familiarity (vi or nano, typically). If all this seems a bit overwhelming, you're not alone. If you need assistance, I'm sure there are Koha support companies in your geographic region who would be happy to assist you with installation, and may even provide hosting options. Check http://koha-community.org/support/paid-support/ for a listing of known support companies from all over the world. I hope this is some help to you. Cheers, -Ian On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Hugo Agud ha...@orex.es wrote: Hi Perhaps the best option is to use on of the wonderful liblive cd that auto- install koha very well, if you know perl better, but you can go on anyway Regarding the bac-up it will depend pn you, but with mysql is quite ease and fast Kindest regatds Enviado desde mi iPad, disculpen los errores tipográficos y ortográficos El 26/09/2011, a las 08:26, Smurk sossola...@hotmail.com escribió: Hello Sorry, it will definitely be a bunch of silly questions, but I really don't know... What kind of IT skills are required for someone to run Koha on a private server (for a small network of about 6 libraries, each with a very limited collection) and do the maintenance etc? I have been asked to help a little library who would like to have her own server and centralize for the few other libraries of its network. I know Koha very well, I am quite good with computers and training people and all library things. I create websites, I know PhP and MySql (but not really the other languages). But I have never installed or used a server, I have no idea what that involves. Is it like setting a new computer and let's go? Will the server be delivered with Windows or Linux or I don't know what other OS? I will have to organise daily back-ups, is that something easy? I will have to link the server with a website or something like that (I told you I don't know anything), is that really tricky? Do I have to know Perl or can I just install whatever package ares required and that would do it? Are there other important things that I need to know before I may plan to do it...? Ultimately, can I ask someone else to set up the server and I only step in when it's all ready to go? I mean, is that really something that we can ask an IT company to do for us? Many thanks for your help! Sonia. -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/What-kind-of-IT-skills-required-tp4840358p4840358.html Sent from the Koha - Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- Ian Walls Lead Development Specialist ByWater Solutions Phone # (888) 900-8944 http://bywatersolutions.com ian.wa...@bywatersolutions.com Twitter: @sekjal ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz
