AsciiDoc Installation

   version 8.1.0, 22 October 2006

   Note: The current version of AsciiDoc requires Python 2.3 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/.

   The latest AsciiDoc downloads can be found on the AsciiDoc website
   [2]http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/downloads.html and at the
   SourceForge [3]http://sourceforge.net/projects/asciidoc/):
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1. Prepackaged AsciiDoc installation

   The AsciiDoc [4]downloads page lists AsciiDoc packages for various
   Linux distributions.
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2. Distribution tarball installation

   If your Linux distribution is not supported, you use some other *NIX
   platform or you prefer to install from source you can use the
   install.sh shell script in the tarball root directory (thanks to
   [5]Jacob Mandelson for writing this script).

   install.sh installs AsciiDoc executables, configuration files and man
   pages in the usual locations. Here's how:

     $ tar -xzf asciidoc-8.1.0.tar.gz
     $ cd asciidoc-8.1.0
     $ su
     # ./install.sh

   Note: This script was tested on Kubuntu (a Debian based Linux
   distribution). You may need to edit install.sh if your file locations
   differ from those wired into the script.

   The uninstall.sh script (actually just a symlink to install.sh) will
   uninstall AsciiDoc.
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3. Microsoft Windows installation

   To install the zip formatted distribution just unzip the contents to a
   new folder:

     $ mkdir asciidoc
     $ cd asciidoc
     $ unzip ../asciidoc-8.1.0.zip
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4. 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):

     $ asciidoc doc/asciidoc.txt

   Note: Windows users will need to execute the asciidoc.py script
   directly or create a suitable asciidoc.bat file.
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   Version 8.1.0
   Last updated 21-Oct-2006 20:33:52 NZDT

References

   1. http://www.python.org/
   2. http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/downloads.html
   3. http://sourceforge.net/projects/asciidoc/
   4. http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/downloads.html
   5. mailto:jlm@ofb.net