1 Koha - award-winning GPL Integrated Library System
3 Koha aims to be a full-featured Integrated Library System. Developed
4 initially in New Zealand by Katipo Communications Ltd and first deployed
5 in January of 2000 for Horowhenua Library Trust, it is currently
6 maintained by a team of software providers and library technology staff
13 Koha 3.0 has been restructured from Koha 2.2 to use Zebra,
14 a high-performance, general-purpose structured text indexing and
15 retrieval engine. Zebra speaks Z39.50, building on one of Koha's most
18 General library data is held in MySQL, and Koha 3.0 supports MySQL 5,
19 using foreign keys and other recent features.
21 Apache 2 is the recommended web server and VirtualHost configuration
22 files are generated for it.
28 Koha 3.0 comes with a new installer, based on MakeMaker, the tool that
29 is usually used to install CPAN modules. This means that if you know
30 how to customise CPAN-installed modules, the same things should work
31 for you with Koha. If not, don't worry. If you want to customise the
32 installation more than described below, run "man ExtUtils::MakeMaker"
34 Koha 3.0 introduces multi-dbms support. With this release you may elect
35 to install over MySQL 5 or PostgreSQL 8.2.5. Further databases will
38 You need to have a server running MySQL 5 or PostgreSQL 8.2.5, Zebra
39 and some webserver (preferably Apache) before installing Koha.
41 MySQL 5: Create a database called 'koha,' owned by 'kohaadmin'
42 user, with a password set. Note: kohaadmin must have at least the
43 following privileges: SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP.
45 PostgreSQL 8.2.5: Create a database called 'koha,' owned by 'kohaadmin'
46 user, with a password set. Note: kohaadmin must be a superuser. You
47 must also add plpgsql to the koha database.
49 Default installation instructions:
52 (you will be prompted to answer a number of questions)
54 3.(optional) make test
56 5. ln -s /etc/koha/koha-httpd.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/koha
58 7. a2ensite koha && /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
59 8. zebrasrv -f /usr/share/koha/etc/koha-conf.xml
60 9. Browse to http://servername:8080/ and answer the questions
62 OR if you want to install all dependencies from CPAN and are root, you can
63 replace steps 1-3 with "perl install-CPAN.pl" but this is non-standard and
64 may not be safe. Nevertheless, it's pretty cool when it works.
66 The defaults will install Koha to places that follow relevant standards,
67 such as the File Hierarchy Standard. If you want to install Koha to a
68 different directory like /opt/koha, then replace step 1 with (for example):
69 1. perl Makefile.PL INTRANET_CGI_DIR=/www/cgi-bin
71 You can change most of the defaults in a similar way, such as DB_HOST.
72 For full instructions on how to override the default settings, run
73 perldoc rewrite-config.PL
79 IF THIS IS A PRE-RELEASE TREE: please contact developers by email via
80 http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
82 http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.education.libraries.koha.devel
84 IF THIS IS A RELEASED VERSION: please see the support pages at
87 Released versions usually have three-digit numbers, like 3.00.01,
88 while other version number styles are usually snapshots or previews.
94 For instructions on how to package releases, run perldoc Makefile.PL