  Install Python. Assuming you don’t have python yet. If you have either version 2.6 or 2.7 already installed, skip this. From Select all the default options and install. Install Python Setuptools. From If you are using python 2.6 get the setuptools for 2.6. Install Groff. (You can skip this step if you don’t want to generate plain text files.) From Select all the default options and install. Install TexLive. (You can skip this step if you don’t want to generate PDF files.) Go to > unzip install-tl.zip > cd install-tl* > install-tl This will open the TeX Live installation wizard. Follow the instructions. When in doubt use the defaults. This will take quite a while. (3 hours on an old Dell Vostro 1000 laptop. It installs about 2.5 GB in 93,000 files.) If you experience download problems, restart the wizard: it will resume the download where it left off. Long installation instructions can be found at Install HTML Tidy. (You can skip this step if you only want to process RST files and don’t want to build EPUBs from HTML input.) If you are a post-processor you already have this. Update your PATH. Start " Control Panel " System " Advanced " Environment Variables. Click "Path" in the User variables at the top. Click "Edit" If the field is empty just enter (all in one line): C:\Python27; C:\Python27\Scripts; C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin; If the field contains data, go to the end of that data and add a semicolon if there isn’t one already and then add the string above. Click Ok three times. EpubMaker
DebianPrerequisites(Does not work with python 3 yet. If your distribution uses python 3 as default (not likely!), you’ll have to parallel install python 2.6 or 2.7.) # apt-get install python python-setuptools python-lxml # apt-get install groff tidy # apt-get install libpng-dev libjpeg-dev libfreetype6-dev Note: To get PDF generation to work, you have to use TeX Live version 2009-11 or newer. You can get those from debian testing or unstable. If don’t want to switch from debian stable, you have to install TeX Live manually. If you are on testing or unstable: # apt-get install texlive texlive-latex-extra texlive-xetex # apt-get install ttf-linux-libertine ttf-dejavu Else, to install TeX Live manually, go to # cd /path/where/unpacked # perl install-tl -gui Long installation instructions can be found at EpubMaker# easy_install epubmaker Kindlegen(Optional: Used only to make Kindle files): $ wget http://s3.amazonaws.com/kindlegen/kindlegen_linux_2.6_i386_v1.2.tar.gz $ tar -xzf kindlegen_linux_2.6_i386_v1.2.tar.gz |
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