Koha - award-winning GPL Integrated Library System

Koha aims to be a full-featured Integrated Library System. Developed
initially in New Zealand by Katipo Communications Ltd and first deployed
in January of 2000 for Horowhenua Library Trust, it is currently
maintained by a team of software providers and library technology staff
from around the globe.


STRUCTURE
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Koha 3.0 has been restructured from Koha 2.2 to use Zebra,
a high-performance, general-purpose structured text indexing and
retrieval engine.  Zebra speaks Z39.50, building on one of Koha's most
useful features.

General library data is held in MySQL, and Koha 3.0 supports MySQL 5,
using foreign keys and other recent features.

Apache 2 is the recommended web server and VirtualHost configuration
files are generated for it.


INSTALLATION
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Koha 3.0 comes with a new installer, based on MakeMaker, the tool that
is usually used to install CPAN modules.  This means that if you know
how to customise CPAN-installed modules, the same