Will Tuladhar-Douglas

#bsd and/or #koha folks - has anyone got Koha running on FreeBSD? I'm thinking to replace multiple small very old boxes with one big refurbished server (maybe an R640?) running FreeBSD with jails, but I need both Nextcloud and Koha to run with minimal effort.

Any comments? Is this madness?

@KohaILS

Mar 6 at 12:41pmWeb
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@yetiinabox I've not seen anyone installing Koha on FreeBSD (doesn't mean that people haven't though - but it would take some work).

That's mainly as we use Debian packaging (so installing works well with Debian and Ubuntu, LTS releases).

The reason for Debian packaging? Because there are so many dependencies: CPAN modules (lots!), the components that make Koha run - Apache, MySQL or MariaDB, Plack for caching, Zebra (or Elasticsearch/Open Search) for search, and a myriad of other components.

Show threadWill Tuladhar-DouglasMar 8
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thank you! that's very helpful. I have Koha running smoothly on Debian - it's a wonderful beast.