I tried this some two or three years ago, and it was a miserable experience. I've attached below my notes from back then.
If you want to give it a try, please note down each step as accurately as possible. If we get somewhere, I'll add the steps required to our Wiki. I tried getting help for a few things by posting to the publican-list publican-l...@redhat.com The publican-list archives are to be found at https://www.redhat.com/archives/publican-list/ ~~~ sudo apt install publican # this will install fop, but fop is deprecated by publican, it wants wkhtmltopdf # installing wkhtmltopdf doesn't seem to work, as publican requires a 'patched' version # see https://www.redhat.com/archives/publican-list/2014-April/msg00003.html # in case we've already tried to install wkhtmltopdf: # http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18758589/wkhtmltopdf-installation-error-on-ubuntu sudo apt-get remove --purge wkhtmltopdf # now let's install 'patched' wkhtmltopdf: sudo apt-get install openssl build-essential xorg libssl-dev # http://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html wget http://download.gna.org/wkhtmltopdf/0.12/0.12.3/wkhtmltox-0.12.3_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz tar xf wkhtmltox-0.12.3_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz cd wkhtmltox/bin sudo chown root:root wkhtmltopdf sudo cp wkhtmltopdf /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf wkhtmltopdf --version # wkhtmltopdf 0.12.3 (with patched qt) # to avoid "failed loading image" errors and unexplained "wkhtmltopdf died" errors # https://www.redhat.com/archives/publican-list/2013-August/msg00005.html ulimit -n 8192 ~~~ On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 1:28 PM Rick McGuire <object.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a working Ubuntu 18.10 now running in VirtualBox. It would be nice > to be able to build the docs on VM as well. Is there a guide for what needs > to be installed for this? > > Rick > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel >
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