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Re: Very Newbie Installation Guide?
- From: Jennifer Scalf <jscalf at pegasus dot rutgers dot edu>
- To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:58:43 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Very Newbie Installation Guide?
Thank you for your help.
It really came down to RTFM. But I just needed to know the right one :)
Jennifer
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Jennifer Scalf wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> I am brand new to this list and if this question has been asked a millions
> times I'm sorry, but...
>
> Could someone point me to a very newbie installation guide for docbooks
> that will explain what .dtd, .ent, .gml, .whatever files are so that I can
> get through what seems to me to be a mess of files and just start using
> docbooks faster?
>
> I have looked at many different guides including the one that was made
> into a book, I have gotten confused because some say that .ent should be
> changed to .gml and on top of that I have .ent files located all over
> after installing a number of packages, docbook-3.1-3.src.rpm,
> stylesheets-1.54.13rh-5mlx.noarch.rpm, openjade-1.3.1-4 -whatever I read
> were the correct packages. It's a mess.
>
> So I would like to start over. I am installing docbooks on a Redhat 7.3
> Linux box so that I can document a few ongoing projects. I believe I will
> be using the sgml.
>
> Has anyone done this? Is there a good guide just for this?
>
> Thanks so much,
> Jennifer
>