Koha-Barcode-and-Spine-Label

A Web-Application for searching, selecting and printing barcode and spine labels for the books, records and thesis from a given Koha database.

Installation (Requirements)

Following are the setup for Linux (Ubuntu) based Operating System. The software is tested and demonstrated successfully on this platform.

Note that 'pip' points to the reference of Python3

I. Recommended Python version >= 3.5. Install Python first.

• Use following reference for installation:

  http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2017/07/install-python-3-6-1-in-ubuntu-16-04-lts/
  

II. PIP installation for Python:

• Open terminal and run the command as:

  sudo apt-get install python3-pip
  

II. PIP installation for Django:

• Recommend Django version >= 2.2

• Open terminal and run the command as:

  sudo pip install Django
  

• Use following reference for more information:

  https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/topics/install/
  

III. MySQL connection with Django app:

• First thing we will need to do is install python3-dev

• Open terminal and run the command as:

  sudo apt-get install python3-dev
  

• Once python3-dev is installed, we can install the necessary Python and MySQL development headers and libraries:

  sudo apt-get install python3-dev libmysqlclient-dev
  

• Then, we will use pip3 to install the mysqlclient library from PyPi. Since our version of pip points to pip3, we can just use pip:

  sudo pip install mysqlclient
  

IV. Install django_mysql models:

• Open terminal and run the command as:

  sudo pip install django-mysql
  

V. Install Django Docs:

• Open terminal and run the command as:

  sudo pip install django-docs
  

• Use following reference for more information:

  https://pypi.org/project/django-docs/
  

VI. Install URL Decorator for Django:

• Open terminal and run the command as:

  sudo pip install django-decorator-include
  

• Use following reference for more information:

  https://github.com/twidi/django-decorator-include