                             AsciiDoc Installation

   version 8.6.8, 17 July 2012

   Note
       The current version of AsciiDoc requires Python 2.4 or newer to run. If
       you don’t already have an up-to-date version of Python installed it can
       be downloaded from the official Python website
       [1]http://www.python.org/.
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1. Prerequisites

   See the [2]README page.
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2. Installing from the Mercurial repository

   The AsciiDoc [3]Mercurial repository is hosted by [4]Google Code. To
   browse the repository go to
   [5]http://code.google.com/p/asciidoc/source/browse/. You can install
   AsciiDoc from the repository if you don’t have an up to date packaged
   version or want to get the latest version from the trunk:
     * Make sure you have [6]Mercurial installed, you can check with:
  $ hg --version
     * Go to the directory you want to install AsciiDoc into and download
       the repository. This example gets the 8.6.8 tagged release:
  $ cd ~/bin
  $ hg clone -r 8.6.8 https://asciidoc.googlecode.com/hg/ asciidoc-8.6.8

   You now have two choices: you can run asciidoc locally from your
   repository or you can use autoconf(1) and make(1) to perform a
   system-wide install.

  2.1. Running asciidoc from your local copy

   Create a symlink to the AsciiDoc script in a search PATH directory so
   it’s easy to execute asciidoc from the command-line, for example:
  $ ln -s ~/bin/asciidoc-8.6.8/asciidoc.py ~/bin/asciidoc
  $ ln -s ~/bin/asciidoc-8.6.8/a2x.py ~/bin/a2x

   Use the Mercurial pull command to update your local AsciiDoc
   repository.

  2.2. Installing asciidoc for all users

   Create configure using autoconf(1); use configure to create the
   Makefile; run make(1); build the man pages; install:

     $ autoconf
     $ ./configure
     $ make
     $ sudo make install

   To uninstall:

     $ sudo make uninstall
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3. Distribution tarball installation

   The distribution source tarballs can be downloaded from the SourceForge
   [7]http://sourceforge.net/projects/asciidoc/.

   Note
       Unless you are [8]installing on Microsoft Windows you should use the
       tarball and not the zip file to install the the distribution (the
       tarball contains symlinks).

   If your flavor or UNIX or Linux does not have a packaged AsciiDoc
   distribution or if you prefer to install the latest AsciiDoc version
   from source use the configure shell script in the tarball root
   directory.

   The autoconf(1) generated configure script creates a make file that is
   tailored for your system. To install:
  $ tar -xzf asciidoc-8.6.8.tar.gz
  $ cd asciidoc-8.6.8
  $ ./configure
  $ sudo make install

   To install the documentation:
  $ sudo make docs

   To uninstall AsciiDoc:
  $ sudo make uninstall

   If Vim is installed on your system the AsciiDoc Vim syntax highlighter
   and filetype detection scripts will be install in the global Vim
   configuration file directory (asciidoc.vim in the syntax directory and
   asciidoc_filetype.vim in the ftdetect directory).
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4. Microsoft Windows installation

   AsciiDoc is developed and tested on Linux but there seem to be quite a
   few people using it on Windows. To install AsciiDoc on Windows unzip
   the distribution Zip file contents:
  $ unzip asciidoc-8.6.8.zip

   This will create the folder asciidoc-8.6.8 containing the asciidoc.py
   and a2x.py executables along with configuration files and
   documentation.

   To generate DocBook based outputs (e.g. PDFs) you will also need a
   working DocBook toolchain. Installing and configuring a DocBook
   toolchain on Windows can be a challenge — this blog post explains
   [9]How to Create Handsome PDF Documents Without Frustration using
   [10]Cygwin, [11]dblatex and AsciiDoc.
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5. Testing your installation

   Test out asciidoc by changing to the AsciiDoc application directory and
   convert the User Guide document (./doc/asciidoc.txt) to XHTML
   (./doc/asciidoc.html):
  $ python asciidoc.py doc/asciidoc.txt

   [12]testasciidoc offers a more extensive set of conformance tests,
   though you do need to create the test data before running the tests
   (this in itself is a good post-install test):
  $ python ./tests/testasciidoc.py update

   Now you can run the tests by executing this command:
  $ python ./tests/testasciidoc.py run

   A full battery of tests can be run from the main.aap script in the
   distribution root directory:
  $ aap test
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6. Building the distribution

   The AsciiDoc distribution is built using [13]A-A-P (a software build
   system written by Bram Moolenaar). The AsciiDoc A-A-P scripts are:

   ./main.aap
          Builds the distribution tarball and zip files, documentation and
          example website.

   ./doc/main.aap
          Builds distribution documentation.

   ./examples/website/main.aap
          Builds AsciiDoc website.

   ./common.aap
          Included in all scripts.

   To build the distribution tarball and zip files, documentation and
   example website run A-A-P from the distribution root directory:
  $ aap
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7. Prepackaged AsciiDoc installation

   The following platform specific AsciiDoc packages are available:

   Debian GNU/Linux
          If you use Debian or a Debian based distribution there’s an
          [14]AsciiDoc Debian package available. Thanks to [15]Fredrik
          Steen who built and maintains the Debian AsciiDoc package.

   Gentoo Linux
          If you use Gentoo Linux there’s a [16]Gentoo AsciiDoc package
          available. Thanks to [17]Brandon Philips for writing the ebuild.

   Fedora Linux
          With help from Terje Røsten, Chris Wright added asciidoc to
          Fedora Extras which is available in the default installation. To
          install asciidoc execute the following command:

  $ yum install asciidoc

   Slackware Linux
          John Calixto has created a Slackware package for AsciiDoc which
          can be downloaded from [18]http://linuxpackages.net/.

   Ark Linux
          [19]Bernhard Rosenkraenzer added AsciiDoc to Ark Linux — the
          package is available from the Ark Linux repository at
          [20]http://arklinux.osuosl.org/dockyard-devel/, so Ark Linux
          users should just run apt-get install asciidoc.

   T2 Linux
          [21]Christian Wiese added AsciiDoc to the [22]T2 Linux
          repository at
          [23]http://svn.exactcode.de/t2/trunk/package/textproc/asciidoc/.
          To build and install the package on a T2 system, run
          ./scripts/Emerge-Pkg asciidoc from within your T2 source
          directory (default: /usr/src/t2-src).

   Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora and CentOS packages
          Dag Wieers has built AsciiDoc RPMs for a number of Red Hat based
          distributions, they can be downloaded from
          [24]http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/asciidoc/.

   CSW Package for Sun Solaris
          Ben Walton has created a CSW package for AsciiDoc, you can find
          it here: [25]http://opencsw.org/packages/asciidoc.

   See also [26]Packager Notes in the AsciiDoc User Guide.
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   Version 8.6.8
   Last updated 2010-11-15 08:44:54 NZDT

References

   1. http://www.python.org/
   2. file://localhost/tmp/lynxXXXXr4pa6e/README.html
   3. http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/
   4. http://code.google.com/
   5. http://code.google.com/p/asciidoc/source/browse/
   6. http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/
   7. http://sourceforge.net/projects/asciidoc/
   8. file://localhost/tmp/lynxXXXXr4pa6e/L12440-2561TMP.html#X3
   9. http://blog.rainwebs.net/2010/02/25/how-to-create-handsome-pdf-documents-without-frustration/
  10. http://www.cygwin.com/
  11. http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/
  12. file://localhost/tmp/lynxXXXXr4pa6e/testasciidoc.html
  13. http://www.a-a-p.org/
  14. http://packages.debian.org/asciidoc
  15. mailto:stone@debian.org
  16. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-text/asciidoc
  17. mailto:brandon@ifup.org
  18. http://linuxpackages.net/
  19. mailto:bero@arklinux.org
  20. http://arklinux.osuosl.org/dockyard-devel/
  21. mailto:cw@ixplanet.de
  22. http://www.t2-project.org/
  23. http://svn.exactcode.de/t2/trunk/package/textproc/asciidoc/
  24. http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/asciidoc/
  25. http://opencsw.org/packages/asciidoc
  26. file://localhost/tmp/lynxXXXXr4pa6e/userguide.html#X38
