User manual

Chapter 1
Wiki: Koha's wiki might have useful material - http: //wiki .koha-
community.org/.
Installation documents: Up -to -date installation documents are available
in Koha's application folder.
Preparing for installation
In this section we prepare for the installation- setting up a server, preparing a list
of packages for installation and configuring installation tools.
Server prerequisites
Before we start the installation, we will need a server setup as follows:
Prerequisites Description
Server 2 GB RAM, 40 GB hard disk should be good for most
libraries.
Internet connection
High speed Internet connection to download software.
Linux
Your preferred distribution installed on the server.
Firewall ports opened
Git port 9418
FTP port 21
HTTP port 80
Access
Access to the server via SSH, or directly.
User
A Linux user with sudo privileges, in this book we use
user -koha.
Locale
Your locale setup on the server.
Downloading Koha and switching to a branch
One of the first things.we do is to download Koha and switch to a version (or a
branch) that we want to use. This helps us draw up, as explained in sections below,
our package installation list.
Cloning Koha
To download the Koha application, we need Git. Let us install Git:
koha @li190 -245: -$ sudo apt -get install git