Consodoc is developed and tested under Linux, but it's written with portability in mind. Windows and Mac users are encouraged to install the prerequisite software, set the paths to the software in the Consodoc configuration files and test Consodoc.
Consodoc is developed and tested under SCons pre-release version 0.96.90. With each new pre-release version of SCons, Consodoc development is continued under the new version. Consodoc also supports SCons 0.96.1 and the development version.
Prerequisites:
diff and patch: should be installed by default on the most Linux systems.
xmllint and xstproc: should be installed by default on the most Linux systems.
latex and pdflatex: should be available on the most Linux systems.
python: version 2.3 or later, should be available on the most Linux systems.
scons: version 0.96.1 or later, should be available on the most Linux systems.
texml: can be downloaded from http://getfo.org/texml/.
Download Consodoc distribution tarball file consodoc-N.N.N.tar.gz from consodoc.com. Unpack the tarball:
$ tar zxf consodoc-N.N.N.tar.gz
Enter the folder consodoc-N.N.N and execute the command:
$ python setup.py install
If execution is failed with the message like “No module named distutils”, make sure that Python development libraries are installed (the RPM package name might be python-devel).
The installation script copies Consodoc files to /usr/share/consodoc-N.N.N, documentation to /usr/share/doc/consodoc-N.N.N and creates the program /usr/bin/cdoc.
It's possible to use Consodoc locally, without installing it. To do so,
edit the script cdoc_local: set the correct path to the Consodoc files.
use the modified script.