discuss: New maintainer having trouble getting set up
Subject:
Re: New maintainer having trouble getting set up
From:
Poet/Joshua Drake ####@####.####
Date:
20 Sep 2001 15:19:51 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0109200818120.1624-100000@commandprompt.com>
Hello,
For anyone who is interested Command Prompt (my company) has released a
package called DocPro. Basically it is a supported version of all the
latest tools.
For people that just want to unpack and type one command to process there
docs, this is a good solution. You can read more about it at:
http://www.commandprompt.com/products_DocParse.lxp
Poet
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Shuvam wrote:
>> 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
>
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