Today we are looking at how to install Koha on Debian 9.  When I made this video a year or so ago, the university where I worked was busy moving to Koha.  I recently moved to another city, but we got Koha up and running and fully working and they are still using it today.  I installed Koha 17.05 then, but newer versions are already available, so I updated the instructions for your convenience.  Enjoy!

In these blogs and in the videos, I only focus on setting up the server-side, as the GUI side has a good setup wizard.  If you need additional help, please let me know!

Instructions:
su

wget -q -O- http://debian.koha-community.org/koha/gpg.asc | apt-key add -

echo 'deb http://debian.koha-community.org/koha stable main' | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/koha.list

apt-get update

echo 'deb http://debian.koha-community.org/koha 18.11 main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/koha.list

apt-get update

apt-get install koha-common mysql-server apache2

Configure Apache

a2enmod rewrite
a2enmod cgi

Configure apache

nano /etc/apache2/ports.conf and add 
Listen 8080
Listen 8081

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

create library
koha-create --create-db libraryname

Retrieve the admin username and password

nano /etc/koha/sites/libraryname/koha-conf.xml


<config>
  <db_scheme>mysql</db_scheme>

<user>[system generated]</user>
<pass>[Some password generated by the system]</pass>

nano /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/namelibrary.conf

# OPAC
<VirtualHost *:8080>
# Intranet
<VirtualHost *:8081>

reboot your system


login ipaddress of server :8080 guest :8081 staff

For more information:
Official Guide:
https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Debian

A very helpful video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDEO1dWZfxc&t=1s

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