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<chapter id="sec-install">
<title>Installing the Package</title>

<section>
<title>Content</title>

<para>The source package contains the following:</para>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>docs/</term>

<listitem>
<para>Contains the files of this document.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>etc/</term>

<listitem>
<para>Contains the XML configuration schemas, to use to validate your
configuration files.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>latex/</term>

<listitem>
<para>Contains all the latex stuff: LaTeX style files, logos, and scripts to
compile the LaTeX output.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>scripts/</term>

<listitem>
<para>Several scripts, including the main script of the package.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>xsl/</term>

<listitem>
<para>XSL stylesheets.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>tests/</term>

<listitem>
<para>Test files.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</section>

<section id="sec-install-unix">
<title>Installing on Unix like Systems</title>

<section>
<title>Dblatex Packages</title>

<para>Dblatex is packaged for these Systems or Distributions:</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="http://packages.debian.org/dblatex">Linux Debian</ulink>,
<ulink
url="http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=dblatex">Ubuntu</ulink>,</para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para><ulink
url="http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/thomas-schraitle">Linux
OpenSUSE (RPM)</ulink>, <ulink
url="https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/dblatex">Linux Fedora
(RPM)</ulink>,</para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para><ulink url="http://www.freshports.org/textproc/dblatex">FreeBSD</ulink>,
<ulink url="http://pkgsrc.se/textproc/dblatex">NetBSD</ulink>,</para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para><ulink url="http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/dblatex">Mac OS X
(Fink)</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para> 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.</para>
</section>

<section>
<title>Dependencies</title>

<para>To work, the following items must be available:</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>An XSLT. <filename>xsltproc</filename> is the default XSLT used, but one
can also use <ulink url="http://4suite.org">4suite</ulink> or <ulink url="http://saxon.sourceforge.net">saxon</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>The XML DocBook DTD.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>A recent LaTeX distribution. The configure script checks that the needed
latex packages are available.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>Python &gt;= 2.4.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>

<section>
<title>Installation</title>

<section>
<title>Installing the dependencies</title>

<para>To use the package, install properly the dependencies:</para>

<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Install Python if necessary.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>Install LaTeX.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>Install the XSLT. By default <filename>xsltproc</filename> is
used.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>Install the XML DocBook DTD.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>Create a catalog file, that defines where to find the DTD. Here is an
example:</para>

<programlisting>
PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" 
    "file:///usr/local/share/xml/docbook/dtd/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd"
    </programlisting>

<para>If the XML Gnome tools are available, it's a good idea to create an XML
catalog by using <filename>xmlcatalog</filename> such like this:</para>

<programlisting>
% 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
    </programlisting>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>Add the catalog path to the SGML_CATALOG_FILES variable:</para>

<programlisting>export SGML_CATALOG_FILES=$SGML_CATALOG_FILES:/path/to/mycatalog
</programlisting>

<para>You can skip this step if you configure the dblatex installation with
the <option>--catalogs</option> option.</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</section>

<section>
<title>Installing from the source tarball</title>

<para>The steps to follow are the following:</para>

<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Untar the ball. For a bzipped release, do as follow:</para>

<screen>% tar xvfj dblatex-x.x.x.tar.bz2</screen>

<para>For a gzipped release, do as follow:</para>

<screen>% tar xvfz dblatex-x.x.x.tar.gz</screen>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>Install the package. The installation script preliminary checks the
dependencies. In the example, the <filename>dblatex</filename> script is
installed under <filename>/usr/local/bin</filename> and the other files are
installed under <filename>/usr/local/share/dblatex</filename>. Besides, the
<option>--catalogs</option> option tells where to find the catalogs.</para>

<programlisting>
% cd dblatex-x.x.x
% python ./setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local --catalogs=/path/to/mycatalog
</programlisting>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</section>
<section id="sec-install-pypi">
<title>Installing from the Python Egg</title>

<para>Since version 0.3.2 dblatex is distributed as a Python Egg in the <ulink url="http://pypi.python.org/pypi">Python Package Index (PyPI)</ulink>. It requires to have <command>easy_install</command> installed.</para>

<para>The procedure to follow is:</para>

<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Call simply easy_install:</para>
<screen>
% <userinput>easy_install dblatex</userinput>
Searching for dblatex
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/dblatex/
Reading http://dblatex.sf.net
Best match: dblatex 0.3.1.1
Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.5/d/dblatex/dblatex-0.3.1.1-py2.5.egg#md5=8520d596e473ff544eb9dcdc5175d7ae
Processing dblatex-0.3.1.1-py2.5.egg
creating /path/to/dblatex-0.3.1.1-py2.5.egg
Extracting dblatex-0.3.1.1-py2.5.egg to /path/to
Adding dblatex 0.3.1.1 to easy-install.pth file
Installing dblatex script to /path/to

Installed /path/to/dblatex-0.3.1.1-py2.5.egg
</screen>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
<para>That's it!</para>
</section>
</section>
</section>

<section>
<title>Installing on Windows</title>

<para>The following packages to install and the procedure is for a native
Windows installation. If you want to use dblatex via Cygwin instead, you
should consider it like a unix like install.</para>

<section>
<title>Dependencies</title>

<para>The following applications are required: <itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>An XSLT. <filename>xsltproc</filename> is the default XSLT used, but one
can also use <ulink url="http://foursuite.sourceforge.net">4suite</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>The XML DocBook DTD.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para><ulink url="http://www.miktex.org">MiKTeX</ulink> &gt; 2.5.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para><ulink url="http://www.python.org">Python</ulink> &gt;= 2.4.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist></para>
</section>

<section>
<title>Installation</title>

<section>
<title>Installing xsltproc</title>

<para>You can download the binaries and getting the installation instructions
from: <ulink url="http://www.zlatkovic.com/libxml.en.html"></ulink>.</para>
</section>

<section>
<title>Installing MiKTeX</title>

<para>Install the minimal distribution, and add the following packages:
changebar, colortbl, fancybox, fancyhdr, fancyvrb, listings, overpics,
rotating, subfigure, titlesec, bibtopic, enumitem, eepic, lm, lastpage,
helvetic, times, symbol, courier, footmisc, ifxetex, pdfpages, wasysym.</para>
</section>

<section>
<title>Installing dblatex</title>

<para>From the unpacked package directory just type:</para>

<screen>python setup.py install</screen>

<para>If the Python directory is <filename>C:\Python25</filename> you can now
try <command>dblatex</command> by typing:</para>

<screen>python C:\Python25\Scripts\dblatex file.xml</screen>
</section>
</section>
</section>
</chapter>