* Fredrik Eriksson:
> I am fighting to be able to get started in writing a docbook document
> on my Linux Slackware
I had a slackware distro on my laptop until last december. It was a
pain to install new software, especially those relying on others: Galeon
has about 15 package dependencies, a full DocBook installation is
complex, etc. Slackware is not good at managing packages, every new
application must be compiled from scratch.
I then switched to FreeBSD (which is a logic way after Slackware
IMHO ;) and I was very impressed by the ports collection, which
automagically fetches, compiles and installs your packages, along with
their dependencies.
Example: DocBook
* Tell FreeBSD to install the DocBook DTD:
cd /usr/ports/textproc/docbook/
make install
* Tell FreeBSD to install DocBook's DSSSL stylesheets
cd /usr/ports/textproc/dsssl-docbook-modular/
make install
* Tell FreeBSD to install Jade
cd /usr/ports/textproc/jade/
make install
* Tell FreeBSD to install JadeTex (for PDF output)
cd /usr/ports/print/jadetex/
make install
Of course, TeTeX is a dependency of jadetex, and will therefore be
installed automatically if it is missing.
That's all!
--
Jean-Baptiste Quenot
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