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Fedora installations are tricky

Fedora 3 has python 2.3, sqlite 2, and mysql 4, but it is not easy to install OpenOffice2.0. Fedora 5 has python 2.4, sqlite 3, and mysql 5, but has OpenOffice 2.0. (Note: python 2.4 and sqlite 3 are incompatible with bibus.)

Therefore, I have written instructions to install on Fedora 5. I was not able to install on Fedora 3 because of technical issues.

Detailed Instructions for Installing on Fedora 5

The description provided is pretty close to the instructions needed to install on Suse 10.0.

Could someone try to provide usable instructions for the Ubuntu installation. For example, what does "You must run debian testing or unstable to get OpenOffice.org connection" mean and why do you have to do it?

Updated instructions (packages?) to run bibus on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn are needed...

Installation on Windows

Bibus on Windows (may be Linux too) is sensitive to national characters in database path, so be carefull: place database in simple path, like "C:\Biblio"

If you have problems with OpenOffice 2.2.1 (Windows version) see comments at forum: incompatibility with new Openoffice 2.2?.

The command for a Windows CVS installation should be: "C:\Program Files\CVSNT\cvs.exe" -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@bibus-biblio.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bibus-biblio co -P bibus

Ubuntu repository problems

The repository at switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bibus-biblio has an HTTP 302 Found error when trying to get Packages.gz and Sources.gz.

-reve_etrange 2009-09-07

note: I also checked behavior if specific version is included in sources.list (i.e. end of source line is /bibus-biblio/debian/bibus-1.4.3 ./) and the 302 error is still returned. Are the Package and Source files subject to a redirect (or a symlink)? APT cannot handle this.