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MJ Ray | 1 Jul 2004 01:12

Re: upgrade from 1.3.2 to 2.0

On 2004-06-29 21:36:31 +0100 Robert Maynord <maynord@...> 
wrote:

> As of my last inquiry about the process of upgrading (August 2003) 
> there was 
> no script that would completely handle the process.

Was that after the koha.upgrade script appeared in the distribution?

Basically, I would start by importing your old data and copying your 
old koha files, then running koha.upgrade and trying to catch what 
breaks. There is still little documentation, especially about 
"once-only" tasks like upgrading, but I try to link what I find from 
http://www.ttllp.co.uk/koha/

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Tim McMahon - West Liberty Public Library | 1 Jul 2004 01:24
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Re: Migrating from Athena -- Koha-MARC DB links

Sorry to follow up on my own post.  I got stuck trying ways I thought it 
should be instead of how it's supposed to be.  I still don't have things 
set the way I want yet, but I'm fairly sure I'm past that problem.

I guess I just needed to say something here before my mind would open up.

I'm still interested in how others have the tag structure set up in an 
Athena conversion.

Tim McMahon - West Liberty Public Library wrote:

> Has anyone switched from Athena to Koha or are in the process?  I 
> could use some help with the MARC DB links.  The problem I'm having is 
> mapping the items fields.  It looks like I should be mapping 852 here.
>
> On the item fields test I'm getting ALL items MUST:
> -be mapped to the same tag
> -and they must be in the 10 (items) tab
>
> Do I need to map all of the items from the drop-down menu?
>

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kanwaljit Dhindsa | 1 Jul 2004 09:35
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MARC TAG STRUCTURE

PLEASE TELL ME WHERE I FIND OUT THE HELP
ABOUT MARC TAG STRUCTURE PARAMETERS IN KOHA .
HOW TO SET THEM,WHICH TAB IS USED FOR WHICH FIELD.
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Stephen Hedges | 1 Jul 2004 13:06

Re: MARC TAG STRUCTURE

kanwaljit Dhindsa said:
> PLEASE TELL ME WHERE I FIND OUT THE HELP
> ABOUT MARC TAG STRUCTURE PARAMETERS IN KOHA .

http://www.skemotah.com/Migrating_to_Koha.html#Prerequisites

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Robert Maynord | 1 Jul 2004 19:02

Re: upgrade from 1.3.2 to 2.0

MJ & Paul:

Thanks for your suggestions! I now have Koha about 90% up and running.  
The OPAC works OK (including search), and many of the Intranet functions 
work OK - Our data is there, and we have MARC tags!

The remaining problem is that the MARC search does not work - it takes 
me to a white error page. The MARC search categories are there, it just 
doesn't do the search.  I assume this has something to do with MARC 
configuration. 

I checked the Koha error log, and found this:

Can't use an undefined value as a HASH reference at
/usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4/SearchMarc.pm line 116.
[Thu Jul  1 11:00:04 2004] [error] [client 192.168.0.5] Premature end of script headers: /usr/local/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/search.marc/search.pl

Does this ring any bells?  Is there something I am obviously not doing?  How do I define the value for the HASH reference?

Robert
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Stephen Hedges | 1 Jul 2004 21:00

Re: upgrade from 1.3.2 to 2.0

Have you got your branches set up, and do the items have homebranches set?
 It sounds like Koha is having trouble figuring out where your items are
(at what location).

Stephen

Robert Maynord said:
> MJ & Paul:
>
> Thanks for your suggestions! I now have Koha about 90% up and running.
> The OPAC works OK (including search), and many of the Intranet functions
> work OK - Our data is there, and we have MARC tags!
>
> The remaining problem is that the MARC search does not work - it takes
> me to a white error page. The MARC search categories are there, it just
> doesn't do the search.  I assume this has something to do with MARC
> configuration.
>
> I checked the Koha error log, and found this:
>
> Can't use an undefined value as a HASH reference at
> /usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4/SearchMarc.pm line 116.
> [Thu Jul  1 11:00:04 2004] [error] [client 192.168.0.5] Premature end of
> script headers: /usr/local/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/search.marc/search.pl
>
> Does this ring any bells?  Is there something I am obviously not doing?
> How do I define the value for the HASH reference?
>
> Robert
>
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Scott Scriven | 2 Jul 2004 00:16

notes during koha 2.0 install

Hello.  I installed koha 2.0.0 about a month ago, and wrote down
some info about my experiences with it afterward.  I began the
process as a complete koha newbie, though I've been a *nix
sysadmin for nearly a decade.  Anyway, I'm providing these notes
in hopes it will help the koha developers:

Installation experiences...

I went to koha's main site and found a download link to sourceforge.
Continuing, I found a tarball for koha-2.0.0, and grabbed it.  After
unpacking, I browsed the contents a bit.

The README had very little info, and said to run the installer.  No
INSTALL file was provided.  I don't like running downloaded executables
on my system; who knows what they might do?  Such a script might assume
things which are not true about me, or my system.  I probably didn't
even have its dependencies satisfied, so I decided to get more
information first.

  Suggestion:  Create an INSTALL file, and list all dependencies in it.
    Also, describe what the installer script does, in detail.

I looked at the koha site again, for installation info.  It had a decent
installation guide, here:

  http://www.koha.org/installation/quick-start.html

I read the hints there, the faq, and the install guide.  I located the
debian packages for listed dependencies, and installed them.  I got the
rest of the deps from cpan, packaged them into .deb files, and installed
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MJ Ray | 2 Jul 2004 00:57

Re: notes during koha 2.0 install

Scott,

Thanks for your testing. I'll probably add most of the things you 
mention to the bugs.koha.org if they're not already there. I find the 
outdated docs on the koha.org site cause more people problems than 
almost anything else. I will update the docs in the tarball before 
2.0.1 is released, hopefully next week.

On 2004-07-01 23:16:24 +0100 Scott Scriven <koha-main@...> 
wrote:

>   Suggestion: notify user that installer must be run as root.  Or, add
>     non-root installation capability.  Or, abort install when writing 
> to
>     /etc fails, and explain why to the user.

There is non-root installation capability through prefix and etcdir 
environment variables. That was one of the first things I added. I 
should probably bomb out if we can't write to the chosen etcdir (which 
defaults to "/etc").

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Philippe Revault | 2 Jul 2004 14:16
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Re: upgrade from 1.3.2 to 2.0


>Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:36:31 -0500
>From: Robert Maynord <maynord@...>
>To: KOHA <koha@...>
>Subject: [Koha] upgrade from 1.3.2 to 2.0
>
>Hello Koha Folks!
>
>It is summer, and time for our school KOHA upgrade from 1.3.2 to 2.0!  I 
>have 2.0 installed and working on a new machine, and I have left the old 
>1.3.2 library machine in place -untouched- until I complete the 
>transition - just to be sure the data is safe.  My plan is to save the 
>data on the old machine using mysqldump - then transfer it to the new 
>machine.
>  
>
IMH and not expert opinion I would (because I did so with some personnal 
datas) install a new  1.2.3 instance (using the sql dump) and run the 
upgrade with it.

>
>I have been promising our librarian an upgrade for a year now -- any 
>suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
>  
>
Be really carefull with setting the MARC parameters because the job is 
very long and some of your datas may be lost if you don't match  
correctly MARC structure and KOHA structure  before you run 
updatedb2marc.pl.
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MJ Ray | 2 Jul 2004 15:59

Re: upgrade from 1.3.2 to 2.0

On 2004-07-01 18:02:41 +0100 Robert Maynord <rmaynord@...> 
wrote:

> Does this ring any bells?  Is there something I am obviously not 
> doing?  How 
> do I define the value for the HASH reference?

Do you have stopwords defined? I think they're set in the Parameters 
section.

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