Dblatex is packaged for these Systems or Distributions:
If you are installing on one of these distributions, follow their recommended way of installation, and you can safely ignore the next sections that give details for installing dblatex from the source tarball.
To work, the following items must be available:
An XSLT. xsltproc
is the default XSLT used, but one
can also use 4suite.
The XML DocBook DTD.
A recent LaTeX distribution. The configure script checks that the needed latex packages are available.
Python >= 2.4.
To use the package, install properly the dependencies:
Install Python if necessary.
Install LaTeX.
Install the XSLT. By default xsltproc
is
used.
Install the XML DocBook DTD.
Create a catalog file, that defines where to find the DTD. Here is an example:
PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" "file:///usr/local/share/xml/docbook/dtd/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd"
If the XML Gnome tools are available, it's a good idea to create an XML
catalog by using xmlcatalog
such like this:
% xmlcatalog --noout --create mycatalog % xmlcatalog --noout --add 'public' '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN' \ 'file://path/to/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd' mycatalog
Add the catalog path to the SGML_CATALOG_FILES variable:
export SGML_CATALOG_FILES=$SGML_CATALOG_FILES:/path/to/mycatalog
You can skip this step if you configure the dblatex installation with
the --catalogs
option.
The steps to follow are the following:
Untar the ball. For a bzipped release, do as follow:
% tar xvfj dblatex-x.x.x.tar.bz2
For a gzipped release, do as follow:
% tar xvfz dblatex-x.x.x.tar.gz
Install the package. The installation script preliminary checks the
dependencies. In the example, the dblatex
script is
installed under /usr/local/bin
and the other files are
installed under /usr/local/share/dblatex
. Besides, the
--catalogs
option tells where to find the catalogs.
% cd dblatex-x.x.x % python ./setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local --catalogs=/path/to/mycatalog