Preparing your system

In order to run Koha, your server will need the following prerequisites:

For administration purposes you will need:

Root on the server (or a user capable to do all operations as sudo)
A reasonable level of comfort with the command line
Database administration skills (Create, delete, and add users to a MySql database)

Build Tools - Tools necessary to install the rest of the dependencies.

Debian Lenny:

apt-get install build-essential, ssh, locate, sudo, ntp

Debian Squeeze:

apt-get install build-essential, ssh, locate, sudo, make, ntp

Ubuntu:

apt-get install build-essential, ssh, locate, sudo, ntp