[Checkins] SVN: grok/trunk/doc/reference/README.txt Add hints for installing the toolset on Debian and Ubuntu systems.

Jan-Wijbrand Kolman jw at infrae.com
Wed May 30 15:39:51 EDT 2007


Log message for revision 76012:
  Add hints for installing the toolset on Debian and Ubuntu systems.

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  U   grok/trunk/doc/reference/README.txt

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Modified: grok/trunk/doc/reference/README.txt
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--- grok/trunk/doc/reference/README.txt	2007-05-30 19:39:04 UTC (rev 76011)
+++ grok/trunk/doc/reference/README.txt	2007-05-30 19:39:51 UTC (rev 76012)
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 Build the HTML
 --------------
 
+Compiling the sources into HTML::
+
   $ mkhowto --html reference.tex
 
 The directory 'reference/' keeps all files required to display the manual after
@@ -18,7 +20,24 @@
 -------------
 
 The file 'reference.pdf' will contain the PDF version of the manual after this
-call:
+call::
 
   $ mkhowto --pdf reference.tex
 
+Installing prerequisites on Debian and Ubuntu systems
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+On recent Debian and Ubuntu systems, the following packages provide the
+required toolset for compiling the sources.
+
+The basic LaTeX infrastructure::
+
+  $ sudo apt-get install tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-extra latex2html
+
+The python-dev package provides the mkhowto script::
+
+  $ sudo apt-get install python2.4-dev
+
+This script will be located in::
+
+  /usr/lib/python2.4/doc/tools/mkhowto



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