Installing Koha on Ubuntu 22.04: An Easy Step-by-Step Guide

Koha is an open-source library management system used by libraries all over the world. If you’re looking to set up your own library and manage its resources, Koha is a great choice. It’s free and easy to install on Ubuntu 22.04. Here’s a step-by-step guide to Installing Koha on Ubuntu 22.04: An Easy Step-by-stepGuide help you get started.

Koha is an incredibly versatile, open-source library management system used by thousands of libraries around the world. It’s a great choice for anyone looking to set up their own library and manage its resources. The great thing about Koha is that it’s free and easy to install on Ubuntu 22.04. Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you get started.

First, you’ll need to upgrade step. To do this, open a terminal window and enter the following command:

sudo su

sudo apt update

sudo apt upgrade

sudo apt clean

After this if your PC say's to restart then don't ignore it

Then we need to install light weight text editor this is an optional you can use Nano, Gedit which is alredy installed on your system.

apt-get install mousepad

Now We will add Koha Repository

sudo apt install -y software-properties-common dirmngr file-roller 

After adding the Koha repository we will add Koha Community and trusted repository Key.

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

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

After that its time to Updating Repository. For updating following the next..

Update Software Repository

apt-get update

Insatll Koha Software

sudo apt install -y koha-common

This commond will install koha on your system. After installing Koha we need to configure port.

sudo mousepad /etc/koha/koha-sites.conf

Here i’m using mousepad. It is a text editor name you can also use gedit, nano etc. acording to your choice. This will open koha-sites.conf file on editor. where we will find INTRAPORT=”80″ and change it to

INTRAPORT=”8080″

Now the time to insatll MariaDB server and Client fro Koha Database. Run the following commond on terminal one by one:

Install MariaDB Server

sudo apt install mariadb-server

Install MariaDB Client

sudo apt install mariadb-client-10.3

Create Root password for MariaDB

sudo mysqladmin -u root password newpass

Here newpass is a password you can write your own password by replacing [newpass]. After definging the root password we will create the koha instance

Apache module

for creating the koha instance folling the commond to create Apache configurating files

sudo a2enmod rewrite

sudo a2enmod cgi

sudo service apache2 restart

Now we will create koha insatnce using

sudo koha-create --create-db rtparklib

In my case i’m writing rtparklib you can write your own. and now assigned 8080 port for the Koha Staff Client and 80 for OPAC. To do this open ports.conf files using

sudo mousepad /etc/apache2/ports.conf

Copy-Paste following line below Listen 80

Listen 8080

Restart Apache,

sudo service apache2 restart

Now,

Enabling modules and sites

sudo a2dissite 000-default

sudo a2enmod deflate

sudo a2ensite rtparklib

sudo service apache2 restart

Run the following command to insatll “Locale::Language” perl module

sudo apt install liblocale-codes-perl

if you have sufficient RAM than you may enable and start Plack fro koha perfomance improvment. For enabling it run

sudo koha-plack --enable library && sudo koha-plack --start library

install perl module koha supporting using

sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::KohaSupport'

after this all open a browser to open the Staff client of koha and set up library

Staff Client
http://127.0.1.1:8080
OPAC

http://127.0.1.1

this link will open koha primary setting, start set up your library that meet your need using the datatbase username and password of koha_rtparklib. You can find password form the file /etc/koha/sites/library/koha-conf.xml

or just give command on termind to print your password

sudo xmlstarlet sel -t -v 'yazgfs/config/pass' /etc/koha/sites/library/koha-conf.xml;echo

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