Koha 20.05 Installation on Ubuntu 20.04

 

Installation Koha 20.05 on Ubuntu 20.04

1^st Step:

Type these commands in terminal. To open terminal either you can press CTRL+ALT+T together or open through GUI.

Then Type:

$ sudo su
(enter password, it will not be visible so be careful. Here you have to enter the same password which you have given at the time of installation).


Update Ubuntu

# sudo apt-get update
# sudo apt-get upgrade

Add Koha community repository

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

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

Update the software repository

# sudo apt-get update

Install Koha

# sudo apt-get install koha-common

Server configuration

# sudo nano /etc/koha/koha-sites.conf

Here I change the port number of Koha staff client to 8000. Find the following line in the file and make changes.

INTRAPORT="8000"

Install MySQL server

# sudo apt-get install mysql-server

Koha instance creation

Apply following commands to create Apache configuration files.

# sudo a2enmod rewrite
# sudo a2enmod cgi
# sudo service apache2 restart

Create a Koha instance with the name library

# sudo koha-create --create-db library

Add new port

Open the following file and add a new port.

# sudo nano /etc/apache2/ports.conf

Copy paste following line below Listen 80

Listen 8000

Restart Apache

# sudo service apache2 restart

Enable modules and sites

# sudo a2dissite 000-default
# sudo a2enmod deflate
# sudo a2ensite library
# sudo service apache2 restart


Check Koha Master Pssword (master password can be changed any time)

# sudo koha-passwd library

(this command will generate a password for koha. You need to copy that password and save it with yourself, because it will be required in koha web installation Step.

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-----------------------1st Step of Koha Installation Completed----------------------

2^nd Step:

Open the browser and type the following:

For Koha Staff Interface: http://localhost:8000
For Koha OPAC : http://localhost

1. Type http://localhost:8000 in web browser

2. Give User name: koha_library

3. Password: (type that password which you have copied earlier and press enter)

4. Cllick on Contrinue to the next step

5. Cllick on Contrinue to the next step

6. Cllick on Contrinue to the next step

7. Cllick on Contrinue to the next step

8. Cllick on Contrinue to the next step (wait for some time when it appears Database tables created then

9. Cllick on Contrinue to the next step

10. Cllick on Contrinue to the next step

11. Select MARC21 and then click on continue to the next step

12. select your required fields and then click on Import button.

13. Basic installation completed now click on setup up some of koha’s bsir requirement

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