1.5 Get Koha
- There are three suggested ways to install Koha. If you will be
- participating in Koha's development, the Download from Git
- is the recommended way (See 1.5.1 below).
- If you would like to skip some of these tedious tasks, visit
- the following URL:
- http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_3.8_on_Debian_Squeeze
- If you will not be, then follow the Download from Tarball
- instructions (See 1.5.2 below).
+ There are two ways to install Koha. The easy way is using Debian/Ubuntu
+ packages (check http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_ubuntu_-_packages
+ for further instructions).
+
+ The other way is installing from sources. You can get Koha's source
+ either using git (see 1.5.1) or downloading the stable release tarball.
1.5.1 Download from Git
Install Git:
- $ sudo apt-get install git-core
+ $ sudo apt-get install git
- Download Koha:
+ Download Koha (the 3.10.x branch):
$ git clone git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git kohaclone
$ cd kohaclone
- $ git checkout -b myinstall origin
+ $ git checkout -b myinstall origin/3.10.x
NOTE: for more information about Git, please see the Koha Git
Usage Guide:
Determine the version and change directory:
$ ls
- koha-3.08.03 koha-lastest.tar.gz
- $ cd koha-3.08.03
+ koha-3.10.00 koha-latest.tar.gz
+ $ cd koha-3.10.00
1.6 Install additional Ubuntu dependencies
Several Koha dependencies have been conveniently packaged and
- will be installed issuing the following commands:
-
- $ sudo apt-get install dselect
- $ sudo dpkg --set-selections < install_misc/ubuntu.packages
- $ sudo dselect
+ will be installed issuing the following command:
- Choose [I]nstall and accept packages to be installed and hit
- return. Be patient. This may take a long time.
- Choose [C]onfigure, [R]emove and [Q]uit until dselect has
- completed.
+ $ sudo apt-get install `cat install_misc/ubuntu.12.04.packages | \
+ cut -f1 | grep -v '#' | grep -v -e '^$'`
+ Confirm that you want to install the required packages when prompted,
1.7 Install Perl dependencies that aren't packaged