Re: [docbook-apps] Ubuntu package for DocBook XSL 1.76.1

[Niels Muller Larsen <nmlenator@gmail.com>]

Hi there

On Gentoo Linux there is a 1.76.1.
It is installable through portage.
I use it myself.

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On 11/23/11 09:02, Eduard Tibet wrote:
> Bob, 
>
> As I know, there are no "docbook-xsl-ns" with version 1.76.1 package in stable|testing debian repository. Moreover, the 1.76 version of docbook stylesheet is only in sid (unstable) repo of debian (what ubuntu packages are often derived from): http://packages.debian.org/sid/docbook-xsl-ns
>
> You can try (some risky and tricky, though) use unstable sid repository from debian on ubuntu just to install the package.
>
> 1. Install the xml-core and perl (you find information about it a little later) package from the stable repo.
>  
> sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends xml-core perl
>
> 2. Add the following string to /etc/apt/sources.list (unstable repo)
>
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main
>
> 3. run to update local repo db:
>
> sudo apt-get update
>
> 4. install the package using sid repo
>
> sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends -t sid install docbook-xsl-ns sgml-base
>
> Please, note, that:
> - docbook-xsl-ns package depends on xml-core, so better to use xml-core from the stable repo.
> - sgml-base package depends on perl (version doesn't matter), so better to use perl from the stable repo - see step 1.
>
> 5. Disable (by commenting) or just delete the string deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main
> from the /etc/apt/sources.list file and run apt-get update once more.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Eduard Tibet
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Stayton [mailto:bobs@sagehill.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 3:38 AM
> To: DocBook Apps
> Subject: [docbook-apps] Ubuntu package for DocBook XSL 1.76.1
>
> I have a requirement to install the DocBook XSL ns stylesheets from a Debian package 
> on an Ubuntu system.  However, I can only seem to find version 1.75.2 packaged that 
> way, and not the latest 1.76.1.    Does anyone know where to find the updated package?
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> bobs@sagehill.net
>
>
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