Updated INSTALL.opensuse for openSUSE 11.0 Final

[koha.git] / INSTALL.debian

diff --git a/INSTALL.debian b/INSTALL.debian
index 92e6ef5..c0d205d 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL.debian
+++ b/INSTALL.debian
@@ -2,11 +2,14 @@
 Installation Guide for Installing Koha on Debian Etch with MySQL 5
 =============================
 
-Copyright (C) 2007, LibLime
+Copyright (C) 2007, 2008 LibLime (http://liblime.com)
 
 Maintainer: Joshua Ferraro (jmf AT liblime DOT com)
-Feedback/bug reports: jmf AT liblime DOT com
-This document last modified: 29 December 2007
+
+Feedback/bug reports: Koha Developer's List:
+http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
+
+This document last modified: 30 April 2008
 
 Installation Instructions
 =============================
@@ -72,7 +75,7 @@ Note: for more information about Git, please see the Koha Git Usage Guide:
 
 1.4.2 Option B: Download Koha from http://download.koha.org
 
-    $ wget http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00-alpha.tar.gz
+    $ wget http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00-beta.tar.gz
     ( Note: use the latest stable version)
 
 1.5 Install additional Debian dependencies
@@ -171,11 +174,26 @@ When the configuration is completed CPAN will install the Perl modules.
 
     /etc/perl/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini
 
-2.4 Create test database in order to install DBD::mysql
+2.4 Install DBD::mysql Perl module
 
 In order to handle UTF-8 correctly, Koha requires at least version 4.004
-of the DBD::mysql Perl module.  However, Debian Etch has a stable package
+of the DBD::mysql Perl module. However, Debian Etch has a stable package
 only for version 3.0008, so it is necessary to install the module  from CPAN.
+DBD::mysql's test suite needs to use a MySQL 'test' DB which doesn't exist 
+anymore. So there are two options to install DBD::mysql: 
+
+  (1) install without test suite,
+  (2) install with test suite requiring a test MySQL DB creation.
+
+2.4.1 Install without test suite
+
+Force install DBD::mysql:
+
+    $ sudo cpan
+    cpan> force install DBD::mysql
+
+2.4.2 Create test database in order to install DBD::mysql
+
 Because of DBD::mysql's test suite, it is necessary to temporarily create a
 test database and user: