dblatex install problems [Was: Help needed to get FOP native compiled using GCJ]

[Michael Smith <smith@xml-doc.org>]

The latest dblatex release, dblatex 0.16, includes the
bibtopic.sty file. If you try it, I think the install should now
work for you as expected.

  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dblatex/dblatex-0.1.6.tar.bz2?download

Tommy Reynolds <Tommy.Reynolds@MegaCoder.com> writes:

> Uttered kai brommann <kai_brommann@yahoo.com>, spake thus:
> 
> > about DocBook XML --> PDF generation tools:
> > why not give dblatex a try:
> > http://dblatex.sf.net
> > the -T db2latex style is quite ok.
> 
> I'm having no joy trying to install this on my Fedora Core 3 system.
> The configure step complains:
> 
> $ ./configure --catalog=/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.2-1.0-25/catalog --prefix=/opt/dblatex
> <snip>
> +checking dbk_item.sty... found in package
> Error: bibtopic.sty  are needed
> 
> What am I missing / doing wrong?
> 
> Cheers

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