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diff --git a/source-builder/sb/asciidoc/INSTALL.txt b/source-builder/sb/asciidoc/INSTALL.txt deleted file mode 100644 index eb07ddd..0000000 --- a/source-builder/sb/asciidoc/INSTALL.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,227 +0,0 @@ -AsciiDoc Installation -===================== - -NOTE: The current version of AsciiDoc requires *Python 2.4 or newer* -to run. If you don't already have an up-to-date version of Python -installed it can be downloaded from the official Python website -http://www.python.org/. - - -Prerequisites -------------- -See the link:README.html[README] page. - - -Installing from the Mercurial repository ----------------------------------------- -The AsciiDoc http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/[Mercurial] repository -is hosted by http://code.google.com/[Google Code]. -To browse the repository go to -http://code.google.com/p/asciidoc/source/browse/. -You can install AsciiDoc from the repository if you don't have an up to -date packaged version or want to get the latest version from the trunk: - -- Make sure you have http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/[Mercurial] - installed, you can check with: - - $ hg --version - -- Go to the directory you want to install AsciiDoc into and download - the repository. This example gets the {revnumber} tagged release: - -[subs="attributes"] - $ cd ~/bin - $ hg clone -r {revnumber} https://asciidoc.googlecode.com/hg/ asciidoc-{revnumber} - -You now have two choices: you can run asciidoc locally from your -repository or you can use 'autoconf(1)' and 'make(1)' to perform a -system-wide install. - -Running asciidoc from your local copy -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Create a symlink to the AsciiDoc script in a search `PATH` directory -so it's easy to execute `asciidoc` from the command-line, for example: - -[subs="attributes"] - $ ln -s ~/bin/asciidoc-{revnumber}/asciidoc.py ~/bin/asciidoc - $ ln -s ~/bin/asciidoc-{revnumber}/a2x.py ~/bin/a2x - -Use the Mercurial `pull` command to update your local AsciiDoc repository. - -Installing asciidoc for all users -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Create `configure` using 'autoconf(1)'; use `configure` to create the -`Makefile`; run 'make(1)'; build the man pages; install: - ---------------------------------------------- -$ autoconf -$ ./configure -$ make -$ sudo make install ---------------------------------------------- - -To uninstall: - ---------------------------------------------- -$ sudo make uninstall ---------------------------------------------- - - -[[X1]] -Distribution tarball installation ---------------------------------- -The distribution source tarballs can be downloaded from the -SourceForge http://sourceforge.net/projects/asciidoc/. - -NOTE: Unless you are <<X3,installing on Microsoft Windows>> you should -use the tarball and not the zip file to install the the distribution -(the tarball contains symlinks). - -If your flavor or UNIX or Linux does not have a packaged AsciiDoc -distribution or if you prefer to install the latest AsciiDoc version -from source use the `configure` shell script in the tarball root -directory. - -The `autoconf(1)` generated `configure` script creates a make file -that is tailored for your system. To install: - -[subs="attributes"] - $ tar -xzf asciidoc-{revnumber}.tar.gz - $ cd asciidoc-{revnumber} - $ ./configure - $ sudo make install - -To install the documentation: - - $ sudo make docs - -To uninstall AsciiDoc: - - $ sudo make uninstall - -If Vim is installed on your system the AsciiDoc Vim syntax highlighter -and filetype detection scripts will be install in the global Vim -configuration file directory (`asciidoc.vim` in the `syntax` directory -and `asciidoc_filetype.vim` in the `ftdetect` directory). - - -[[X3]] -Microsoft Windows installation ------------------------------- -AsciiDoc is developed and tested on Linux but there seem to be quite a -few people using it on Windows. To install AsciiDoc on Windows unzip -the distribution Zip file contents: - -[subs="attributes"] - $ unzip asciidoc-{revnumber}.zip - -This will create the folder +asciidoc-{revnumber}+ containing the -`asciidoc.py` and `a2x.py` executables along with configuration files -and documentation. - -To generate DocBook based outputs (e.g. PDFs) you will also need a -working DocBook toolchain. Installing and configuring a DocBook -toolchain on Windows can be a challenge -- this blog post explains -http://blog.rainwebs.net/2010/02/25/how-to-create-handsome-pdf-documents-without-frustration/[How -to Create Handsome PDF Documents Without Frustration] using -http://www.cygwin.com/[Cygwin], -http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/[dblatex] and AsciiDoc. - - -Testing your installation -------------------------- -Test out asciidoc by changing to the AsciiDoc application directory -and convert the User Guide document (`./doc/asciidoc.txt`) to XHTML -(`./doc/asciidoc.html`): - - $ python asciidoc.py doc/asciidoc.txt - -link:testasciidoc.html[testasciidoc] offers a more extensive set of -conformance tests, though you do need to create the test data before -running the tests (this in itself is a good post-install test): - - $ python ./tests/testasciidoc.py update - -Now you can run the tests by executing this command: - - $ python ./tests/testasciidoc.py run - -A full battery of tests can be run from the `main.aap` script in the -distribution root directory: - - $ aap test - - -Building the distribution -------------------------- -The AsciiDoc distribution is built using http://www.a-a-p.org/[A-A-P] -(a software build system written by Bram Moolenaar). The AsciiDoc -A-A-P scripts are: - -`./main.aap`:: Builds the distribution tarball and zip files, -documentation and example website. -`./doc/main.aap`:: Builds distribution documentation. -`./examples/website/main.aap`:: Builds AsciiDoc website. -`./common.aap`:: Included in all scripts. - -To build the distribution tarball and zip files, documentation and -example website run A-A-P from the distribution root directory: - - $ aap - - -[[X2]] -Prepackaged AsciiDoc installation ---------------------------------- -The following platform specific AsciiDoc packages are available: - -*Debian GNU/Linux*:: - If you use Debian or a Debian based distribution there's an - http://packages.debian.org/asciidoc[AsciiDoc Debian package] - available. Thanks to mailto:stone@debian.org[Fredrik Steen] who - built and maintains the Debian AsciiDoc package. - -*Gentoo Linux*:: - If you use Gentoo Linux there's a - http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-text/asciidoc[Gentoo AsciiDoc - package] available. Thanks to mailto:brandon@ifup.org[Brandon - Philips] for writing the ebuild. - -*Fedora Linux*:: - With help from Terje Røsten, Chris Wright added asciidoc to Fedora - Extras which is available in the default installation. To install - asciidoc execute the following command: - - $ yum install asciidoc - -*Slackware Linux*:: - John Calixto has created a Slackware package for AsciiDoc which can - be downloaded from http://linuxpackages.net/. - -*Ark Linux*:: - mailto:bero@arklinux.org[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer] added AsciiDoc to - Ark Linux -- the package is available from the Ark Linux repository - at http://arklinux.osuosl.org/dockyard-devel/, so Ark Linux users - should just run `apt-get install asciidoc`. - -*T2 Linux*:: - mailto:cw@ixplanet.de[Christian Wiese] added AsciiDoc to the - http://www.t2-project.org/[T2 Linux] repository at - http://svn.exactcode.de/t2/trunk/package/textproc/asciidoc/. To - build and install the package on a T2 system, run - `./scripts/Emerge-Pkg asciidoc` from within your T2 source directory - (default: `/usr/src/t2-src`). - -*Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora and CentOS packages*:: - Dag Wieers has built AsciiDoc RPMs for a number of Red Hat based - distributions, they can be downloaded from - http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/asciidoc/. - -*CSW Package for Sun Solaris*:: - Ben Walton has created a CSW package for AsciiDoc, you can find it - here: http://opencsw.org/packages/asciidoc. - -See also link:userguide.html#X38[Packager Notes] in the 'AsciiDoc User -Guide'. - - |