for you with Koha. If not, don't worry. If you want to customise the
installation more than described below, run "man ExtUtils::MakeMaker"
-You need to have a server running MySQL 5, Zebra and some webserver
-(preferably Apache) before installing Koha. Create a database in
-MySQL called koha, owned by a kohaadmin user, with a password set.
+Koha 3.0 introduces multi-dbms support. With this release you may elect
+to install over MySQL 5 or PostgreSQL 8.2.5. Further databases will
+be added over time.
+
+You need to have a server running MySQL 5 or PostgreSQL 8.2.5, Zebra
+and some webserver (preferably Apache) before installing Koha.
+
+MySQL 5: Create a database called 'koha,' owned by 'kohaadmin'
+user, with a password set. Note: kohaadmin must have at least the
+following privileges: SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP.
+
+PostgreSQL 8.2.5: Create a database called 'koha,' owned by 'kohaadmin'
+user, with a password set. Note: kohaadmin must be a superuser. You
+must also add plpgsql to the koha database.
Default installation instructions:
-0. export MYSQL_PASS=thePasswordYouChose
+0. export DB_PASS=thePasswordYouChose
1. perl Makefile.PL
2. make
3. sudo make install
4. ln -s /usr/share/koha/etc/koha-httpd.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/koha
-5. a2ensite koha && /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
-6. zebrasrv -c /usr/share/koha/etc/koha-conf.xml
-7. Browse to http://servername:8080/ and answer the questions
+5. a2enmod enable rewrite
+6. a2ensite koha && /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
+7. zebrasrv -c /usr/share/koha/etc/koha-conf.xml
+8. Browse to http://servername:8080/ and answer the questions
OR if you want to install all dependencies from CPAN and are root, you can
replace steps 1-3 with "perl install-CPAN.pl" but this is non-standard and
1c. export LOG_DIR=/opt/koha/log
1d. perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/opt/koha
-You can change most of the defaults in a similar way, such as MYSQL_HOST.
+You can change most of the defaults in a similar way, such as DB_HOST.
For full instructions on how to override the default settings, run
perldoc rewrite-config.PL