[4suite] installation of 4suite 0.9 rc1

[Uche Ogbuji]

Alexandre Fayolle wrote:

> > Alexandre Fayolle wrote:
> >
> > > correctly.
> >
> > The network should not be required at all.  I haven't seen this problem
> > but we'll have a look.
> 
> OK, I've reinstalled python xml tools from scratch (distutils,
> pyxml0.5.5.1, bisongen and 4suite0.9rc1) in that order. Things went far
> better than the previous time (no errors with UTF-8, I guess my machine
> was quite messy), but I still had to establish a netwaork
> connection. Maybe there's a dtd that's fetched with an URL on the net
> somewhere in the install procedure? I guess things will go better when
> installing from an RPM package.

Ah.  ding ding ding!

Thanks.  Your guess was close enough that it showed me the answer.

The build process generates the docs from XML using XSLT and if it
doesn't find the stylesheets locally, it tries to get them from our
server.

If you get the stylesheets from

ftp://ftp.fourthought.com/pub/stylesheets

And copy them to /usr/local/lib/xslt

It will use the local copies rather than access the net.

You are correct that this won't be a problem with RPM.

BYW, I guess local copies won't work for Windows users (no such dir as
/usr/local/lib/xslt).

Can any Windows users suggest a good general location for XSLT
transforms?

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