Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook setup on Debian 3.0

[Mike M <linux-support@earthlink.net>]

On Tuesday 25 February 2003 19:18, Michael Smith wrote:
> Mike M <linux-support@earthlink.net> writes:
> > On Tuesday 25 February 2003 03:43, Yann Dirson wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 01:00:20PM -0500, Mike M wrote:
> > > > I want to restart my DocBook efforts.  I have SGML source and want
> > > > to produce HTML and PDF docs.
> > > >
> > > > Should I start by installing these packages: docbook, docbook-dsssl?
> > >
> > > and openjade1.3 - there are some hardcoded deps that will pull old
> > > "jade", but you should not use it.
> > >
> > > You may be interested by the additional stylesheets in
> > > alcovebook-sgml.  Just run "docbook-2-pdf --help" to get them listed.
> >
> > Maybe this will turn up on a Google for "docbook debian".
>
> There's some info at the DocBook Wiki
>
>   http://docbook.org/wiki/moin.cgi/DebianGnuLinuxPackages

I guess I should've found that since it Googled at #2 on "debian docbook".

The wiki didn't discuss the setting up SGML_CATALOG_FILES environment var 
which took the most time for me.  I wish I had followed the wiki instructions 
to see if maybe it got set automagically in the process.
-- 
Mike M.