Obtaining and installing DocBook tools

Follow these instructions for your favourite platform, either UNIX (free tools), Win32 (free tools) or FrameMaker+SGML.

UNIX

On UNIX we are distributing these tools as RPM packages, providing a binary distribution for intel-baesd GNU/Linux systems, and a source distribution for others [FIXME: must clear this up a bit].

Here is an example of a UNIX session to get and install the free DocBook tool set on a GNU/Linux system. The tools can be found at this location [FIXME: the DSSSL for printed output does the wrong thing with ulink.]

	$ ncftp ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/home/rosalia/
	ncftp> cd docware/RPMS/i386/
	ncftp> mget *.rpm
	ncftp> quit
	$ su
	Password: ultra-sucure
	# rpm --install sgml-common*.rpm
	# rpm --install docbook*.rpm
	# rpm --install stylesheets*.rpm
	# rpm --install psgml*.rpm
	# rpm --install jade*.rpm
	# rpm --install jadetex*.rpm
	# rpm --install sgml-demo*.rpm
      

Note

The order of installing packages is important.

Note

When you are upgrading, rather than installing for the first time, the rpm --install steps should be replaced with rpm --upgrade.

You are now ready to edit SGML/DocBook documents.