Install dbxml2rst and Pandoc

This is a python 3 project (no python 2 support). First install python3 on your OS, e.g. on Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install python3 python3-pip3

Next step is to clone the repository from github and install it:

git clone https://github.com/return42/dbxml2rst.git
cd dbxml2rst
make install

This installs dbxml2rst and the pandoc-filters. The dbxml2rst library requires an up-to-date pandoc installation. I recommend to use pandoc version>=1.17.1 which is available e.g. on Ubuntu 16.04.:

$ sudo apt-get install pandoc

If your distribution has no pandoc or an older version, you have to go the hard way and install the developer version of haskell-stack, ghc and pandoc (pandoc developer installation).

pandoc developer installation

The developer installation of pandoc requires up-to-date installations of haskell-stack, ghc and pandoc.

To install haskell-stack on your OS follow:

• https://docs.haskellstack.org/en/stable/README/

Alternative use the ‘haskell-stack’ target of dbxm2rst Makefile:

$ make haskell-stack

To install pandoc and ghc follow:

• https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/wiki/Installing-the-development-version-of-pandoc

Alternative use the ‘pandoc-build’ target of dbxm2rst Makefile:

$ make pandoc-build

Caution

Remind, building the haskel compiler and compiling pandoc does massive time, memory and CPU consumption.