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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>J.2. Tool Sets</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css" /><link rev="made" href="pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot" /><link rel="prev" href="docguide-docbook.html" title="J.1. DocBook" /><link rel="next" href="docguide-build.html" title="J.3. Building The Documentation" /></head><body><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional" class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="5" align="center">J.2. Tool Sets</th></tr><tr><td width="10%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="docguide-docbook.html" title="J.1. DocBook">Prev</a> </td><td width="10%" align="left"><a accesskey="u" href="docguide.html" title="Appendix J. Documentation">Up</a></td><th width="60%" align="center">Appendix J. Documentation</th><td width="10%" align="right"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html" title="PostgreSQL 11.5 Documentation">Home</a></td><td width="10%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="docguide-build.html" title="J.3. Building The Documentation">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></hr></div><div class="sect1" id="DOCGUIDE-TOOLSETS"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both">J.2. Tool Sets</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="docguide-toolsets.html#id-1.11.11.5.5">J.2.1. Installation on Fedora, RHEL, and Derivatives</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="docguide-toolsets.html#id-1.11.11.5.6">J.2.2. Installation on FreeBSD</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="docguide-toolsets.html#id-1.11.11.5.7">J.2.3. Debian Packages</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="docguide-toolsets.html#id-1.11.11.5.8">J.2.4. macOS</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="docguide-toolsets.html#DOCGUIDE-TOOLSETS-CONFIGURE">J.2.5. Detection by <code class="command">configure</code></a></span></dt></dl></div><p>
The following tools are used to process the documentation. Some
might be optional, as noted.
</p><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><a class="ulink" href="https://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/" target="_top">DocBook DTD</a></span></dt><dd><p>
This is the definition of DocBook itself. We currently use version
4.2; you cannot use later or earlier versions. You need
the <acronym class="acronym">XML</acronym> variant of the DocBook DTD, not
the <acronym class="acronym">SGML</acronym> variant.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><a class="ulink" href="https://github.com/docbook/wiki/wiki/DocBookXslStylesheets" target="_top">DocBook XSL Stylesheets</a></span></dt><dd><p>
These contain the processing instructions for converting the
DocBook sources to other formats, such as
<acronym class="acronym">HTML</acronym>.
</p><p>
The minimum required version is currently 1.77.0, but it is recommended
to use the latest available version for best results.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><a class="ulink" href="http://xmlsoft.org/" target="_top">Libxml2</a> for <code class="command">xmllint</code></span></dt><dd><p>
This library and the <code class="command">xmllint</code> tool it contains are
used for processing XML. Many developers will already
have <span class="application">Libxml2</span> installed, because it is also
used when building the PostgreSQL code. Note, however,
that <code class="command">xmllint</code> might need to be installed from a
separate subpackage.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><a class="ulink" href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/" target="_top">Libxslt</a> for <code class="command">xsltproc</code></span></dt><dd><p>
<code class="command">xsltproc</code> is an XSLT processor, that is, a program to
convert XML to other formats using XSLT stylesheets.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><a class="ulink" href="https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/" target="_top">FOP</a></span></dt><dd><p>
This is a program for converting, among other things, XML to PDF.
</p></dd></dl></div><p>
</p><p>
We have documented experience with several installation methods for
the various tools that are needed to process the documentation.
These will be described below. There might be some other packaged
distributions for these tools. Please report package status to the
documentation mailing list, and we will include that information
here.
</p><p>
You can get away with not installing DocBook XML and the DocBook XSLT
stylesheets locally, because the required files will be downloaded from the
Internet and cached locally. This may in fact be the preferred solution if
your operating system packages provide only an old version of especially
the stylesheets or if no packages are available at all. See
the <code class="option">--nonet</code> option for <code class="command">xmllint</code>
and <code class="command">xsltproc</code> for more information.
</p><div class="sect2" id="id-1.11.11.5.5"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">J.2.1. Installation on Fedora, RHEL, and Derivatives</h3></div></div></div><p>
To install the required packages, use:
</p><pre class="programlisting">
yum install docbook-dtds docbook-style-xsl fop libxslt
</pre><p>
</p></div><div class="sect2" id="id-1.11.11.5.6"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">J.2.2. Installation on FreeBSD</h3></div></div></div><p>
To install the required packages with <code class="command">pkg</code>, use:
</p><pre class="programlisting">
pkg install docbook-xml docbook-xsl fop libxslt
</pre><p>
</p><p>
When building the documentation from the <code class="filename">doc</code>
directory you'll need to use <code class="command">gmake</code>, because the
makefile provided is not suitable for FreeBSD's <code class="command">make</code>.
</p></div><div class="sect2" id="id-1.11.11.5.7"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">J.2.3. Debian Packages</h3></div></div></div><p>
There is a full set of packages of the documentation tools
available for <span class="productname">Debian GNU/Linux</span>.
To install, simply use:
</p><pre class="programlisting">
apt-get install docbook-xml docbook-xsl fop libxml2-utils xsltproc
</pre><p>
</p></div><div class="sect2" id="id-1.11.11.5.8"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">J.2.4. macOS</h3></div></div></div><p>
On macOS, you can build the HTML and man documentation without installing
anything extra. If you want to build PDFs or want to install a local copy
of DocBook, you can get those from your preferred package manager.
</p><p>
If you use MacPorts, the following will get you set up:
</p><pre class="programlisting">
sudo port install docbook-xml-4.2 docbook-xsl fop
</pre><p>
If you use Homebrew, use this:
</p><pre class="programlisting">
brew install docbook docbook-xsl fop
</pre><p>
</p></div><div class="sect2" id="DOCGUIDE-TOOLSETS-CONFIGURE"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">J.2.5. Detection by <code class="command">configure</code></h3></div></div></div><p>
Before you can build the documentation you need to run the
<code class="filename">configure</code> script as you would when building
the <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> programs themselves.
Check the output near the end of the run, it should look something
like this:
</p><pre class="screen">
checking for xmllint... xmllint
checking for DocBook XML V4.2... yes
checking for dbtoepub... dbtoepub
checking for xsltproc... xsltproc
checking for fop... fop
</pre><p>
If <code class="filename">xmllint</code> was not found then some of the following
tests will be skipped.
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