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Koha - award-winning GPL Integrated Library System.
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Koha is a full-featured . Developed initially in New Zealand by Katipo
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Communications Ltd and first deployed in January of 2000 for Horowhenua
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Library Trust, it is currently maintained by a team of software providers
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and library technology staff from around the globe.
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STRUCTURE
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Koha 3.0 has been restructured from Koha 2.2 to use Zebra,
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a high-performance, general-purpose structured text indexing and
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retrieval engine. Zebra speaks Z39.50, building on one of Koha's most
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useful features.
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General library data is held in MySQL, and Koha 3.0 supports MySQL 5,
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using foreign keys and other recent features.
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Apache 2 is the recommended web server and VirtualHost configuration
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files are generated for it.
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INSTALLATION
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============
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Koha 3.0 comes with a new installer, based on MakeMaker, the tool that
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is usually used to install CPAN modules. This means that if you know
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how to customise CPAN-installed modules, the same things should work
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for you with Koha.
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You need to have a server running MySQL 5, Zebra and some webserver
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(preferably Apache) before installing Koha. Create a database in
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MySQL called koha and
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Default installation instructions:
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1. perl Makefile.PL
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2. make
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3. sudo make install
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4. ln -s /usr/lib/perl5/site-perl/*/koha/etc/koha-httpd.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/koha
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5. a2ensite koha && /etc/init.d/apache reload
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6. zebrasrv -c /usr/lib/perl5/site-perl/*/koha/etc/koha-conf.xml
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7. Browse to http://servername:8080/ and answer the questions
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OR if you want to install all dependencies from CPAN and are root, you can
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replace steps 1-3 with "perl install-CPAN.pl" but this is non-standard and
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may not be safe. Nevertheless, it's pretty cool when it works.
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For instructions on how to override the default settings, run
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perldoc rewrite-config.PL
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DEVELOPER NOTES
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For instructions on how to package releases, run perldoc Makefile.PL
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