User manual

Preface
Much of what we have written in this book is based on our experiences teaching
Koha installation and maintenance of technology and library staff.
We hope this book will help you to quickly install and set up a working Koha
installation, complete with catalog data migrated from your current library system.
The first nine chapters of this book are devoted to these topics. In the rest of the
book we cover topics such as troubleshooting, installing software updates, and
customizing Koha, which will be of interest to you when you start to use Koha in
earnest.
You will need some Linux expertise. Most Koha users use Debian. However you
should feel free to try the installation on your preferred distribution. In the examples
in this book, we have demonstrated Debian and openSuSE commands; we think
these two are representative of most commonly used Linux distributions.
During the installation process, we would encourage you to seek help from the Koha
community via the Koha mailing lists.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Installing the Software Stack
In the first chapter our goal will be to install Koha's software stack -the Koha
application itself, MySQL database server, Apache2 web server, and the various
system and Perl packages Koha uses.
Chapter 2, Configuring the Apache2 Web Server
Next, we will configure Koha's web server - Apache2. Apache2 serves Koha pages
to users when they access the OPAC or the staff client.