Linux Basement Presents: Chad’s Blog

Thanks to the great support on Ubuntu boards, I found a post by teqagogo that solved my broken sound problems when I upgraded from Ubuntu Fiesty to Gutsy. Sound has been my only problem, but this did the trick…

1) update the default kernel options into /boot/grub/menu.lst
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=0baea18f-2277-494d-8c62-95c4fcbdef86 ro quiet splash pci=assign-busses acpi=off noapic nolapic irqpoll=noacpi

2) reconfigure the alsa module even if you already reinstalled it

cd /usr/src
sudo module-assistant update
sudo module-assistant prepare
sudo module-assistant auto-install alsa
sudo shutdown -r now

I downloaded the latest in the Ubuntu server series, Gutsy. I did a standard install and checked the LAMP option durring install to make sure I had Apache2, php5 and mysql5. I’ve heard there are some probblems with Koha and Mysql5, but I will cross that bridge when i come to it.

I did have to

Then I downloaded Koha and ran the install script. this spit out a bunch of perl modules such as

I went through and installed these one by one. I actually came across one that requries the Yaz libraries. The ubuntu repository had too old of a version, so I went out to http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/yaz/ and downloaded the latest. Then did a

make

make install
And low and behold, it installed.
I ran the install script again, and followed the on-screen instructions. Install was pretty easy. The big thing was afterwards I needed to create a symlink between the /etc/apache2/sites-enable/koha-httpd.conf and /etc/koha-httpd.conf

You also must go in and edit the koha-httpd.conf file. The big things are to make sure your DNS paths are correct for the virtualhosting translations. Also, you will want to uncomment listen 8080 at the top of the file.

This got me up and running on gutsy. Now I need to figure out how to make a nice CSS file and configure the site.

So tonight I hit 30. Well, the funny thing is, as much as I tried to deny myself, 30 is an interesting paradigm. I fell young, I feel ready for the world. I feel on top of my game. I have a good wife, smart children, and a fulfilling job. The world is doing its best to keep me in the game and so, the dude abides. Anyway, I think I drank too much and should edit this tomorrow.