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dblatex - DocBook to LaTeX Publishing ChangeLog

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https://dblatex.sourceforge.net/

HOWTO

# dblatex
# =======
# Prerequisites:
# XSLT (xsltproc)
# The XML DocBook DTD (Slackware's linuxdoc-tools package includes this)
# A recent LaTeX
# Python

# You may be able to install it with pip:
su -c "python3 -m pip install --upgrade dblatex"

# dblatex 0.3.12 (source)
# ==============
# Prerequisites:
# libxslt or Saxon XSLT
# ImageMagick convert
# fig2dev
# epstopdf
# TeX/teTeX/latex
# pdfTeX
# kpsewhich

# Get the tarball
cd
test -f installed/dblatex3-0.3.12.tar.bz2 &&
mv -f installed/dblatex3-0.3.12.tar.bz2 .
test ! -f dblatex3-0.3.12.tar.bz2 &&
wget https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/dblatex/dblatex/\
dblatex-0.3.12/dblatex3-0.3.12.tar.bz2

# Extract the source
mkdir -p -m 0700 ~/src
cd ~/src
find -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "dblatex3-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
tar xjvf ~/dblatex3-0.3.12.tar.bz2
cd dblatex3-0.3.12
test $UID = 0 && chown -R root:root .

# Build it
python setup.py build

# Become root to install it
su

# Install it
python setup.py install

# Make sure your non-root user can remove the source later
chown -R $(logname) .
chmod -R u+w .

# Become your non-root user again
exit

# Save the tarball for later
cd
rm -f installed/dblatex3-*.tar.*
mv dblatex3-0.3.12.tar.* installed/