discuss: New maintainer having trouble getting set up
Subject:
Re: New maintainer having trouble getting set up
From:
Shuvam ####@####.####
Date:
20 Sep 2001 05:48:46 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0109200947420.24784-100000@sm.starcomsoftware.com>
> 1) Can anybody help me get set up so that I can edit this document? What
> rpms, tar files, or distributions do I need? I have installed
I read your posting, and I really sympathise with you. We have had a lot
of trouble too, but we didn't have the tenacity to try as long as you.
:) We were lucky. We simply abandoned any attempts to download and
install stuff from the Net as per the HOWTO and the Author's Guide's
instructions. We use SuSE Linux at work (and all this LDP contribution
is work for us, incidentally), so we just installed the entire set of
SGML Tools provided ready-made in SuSE 7.1 (Probably SuSE 7.0 would do
too.) They contain the latest DTDs for SGML DocBook 4.1.x, as well as
the XML DTDs. Everything seems to run straight out of the box, and is
almost the most recent versions available on the Net.
<ASIDE>
I frankly don't know whether RedHat is the best choice for Linux users
who "just want to get the job done," e.g. use it as a desktop OS. We
looked at Red Hat two years back specifically when we wanted a ready-to-
run well-integrated Linux binary distribution (we were on Slackware till
then), and gave up on it. We selected SuSE. Our experience on the whole
has been very good with SuSE. All our office desktops and laptops run SuSE.
</ASIDE>
<FIRE_EXTINGUISHER>
(No flames, please. Any responses along the lines of Red Hat versus SuSE
will get no further responses from me. We _know_ Red Hat must be very
attractive for a variety of reasons, and we are not interested in
getting into a generic comparison.)
</FIRE_EXTINGUISHER>
For LDP volunteers, like us, if you are new to the game, and facing the
kind of scary problems we have faced, you may consider ready-made binary
packages if you use SuSE. I'll ask my colleague Roshan to join this list,
and help with whatever he has learnt while working with these tools from
the SuSE CD.
Shuvam
