SiSU - SiSU information Structuring Universe / Structured information, Serialized Units - Quickstart, installation and use
Ralph Amissah
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2007-09-16
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SiSU - SiSU information Structuring Universe / Structured information,
Serialized Units - Quickstart, installation and use,
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Quickstart - SiSU installation and use
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1. Quickstart - Getting Started Howto
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1.1 Installation
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Installation is currently most straightforward and tested on the
Debian platform, as there are packages for the installation of
sisu and all requirements for what it does.
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1.1.1 Debian Installation
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SiSU is available directly from the Debian Sid and
testing archives (and possibly Ubuntu), assuming your
/etc/apt/sources.list is set accordingly:
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aptitude update
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The following /etc/apt/sources.list setting permits the download of
additional markup samples:
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#/etc/apt/sources.list
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The aptitude commands become:
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aptitude update
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If there are newer versions of SiSU upstream of the
Debian archives, they will be available by adding the following
to your /etc/apt/sources.list
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#/etc/apt/sources.list
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repeat the aptitude commands
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aptitude update
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Note however that it is not necessary to install sisu-complete if not
all components of sisu are to be used. Installing just the package sisu
will provide basic functionality.
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1.1.2 RPM Installation
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RPMs are provided though untested, they are prepared by running alien
against the source package, and against the debs.
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They may be downloaded from:
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<
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as root type:
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rpm -i [rpm package name]
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1.1.3 Installation from source
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To install SiSU from source check information at:
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<
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download the source package
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Unpack the source
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Two alternative modes of installation from source are provided,
setup.rb (by Minero Aoki) and a rant(by Stefan Lang) built install
file, in either case: the first steps are the same, download and unpack
the source file:
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For basic use SiSU is only dependent on the programming language
in which it is written Ruby , and SiSU will be able to
generate html, various XMLs, including ODF (and will also produce
LaTeX). Dependencies required for further actions, though it relies on
the installation of additional dependencies which the source tarball
does not take care of, for things like using a database (postgresql or
sqlite)1 or converting LaTeX to pdf.
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There is nothing to stop MySQL support being added in future.
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setup.rb
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This is a standard ruby installer, using setup.rb is a three step
process. In the root directory of the unpacked SiSU as root
type:
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ruby setup.rb config
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further information on setup.rb is available from:
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<
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"install"
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The "install" file provided is an installer prepared using "rant". In
the root directory of the unpacked SiSU as root type:
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ruby install base
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or for a more complete installation:
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ruby install
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or
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ruby install base
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This makes use of Rant (by Stefan Lang) and the provided Rantfile. It
has been configured to do post installation setup setup configuration
and generation of first test file. Note however, that additional
external package dependencies, such as tetex-extra are not taken care
of for you.
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Further information on "rant" is available from:
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<
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For a list of alternative actions you may type:
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ruby install help
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ruby install -T
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1.2 Testing SiSU, generating output
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To check which version of sisu is installed:
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sisu -v
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Depending on your mode of installation one or a number of markup sample
files may be found either in the directory:
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...
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or
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...
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change directory to the appropriate one:
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cd /usr/share/doc/sisu/sisu_markup_samples/dfsg
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1.2.1 basic text, plaintext, html, XML, ODF
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Having moved to the directory that contains the markup samples (see
instructions above if necessary), choose a file and run sisu against it
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sisu -NhwoabxXyv
free_as_in_freedom.rms_and_free_software.sam_williams.sst
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this will generate html including a concordance file, opendocument text
format, plaintext, XHTML and various forms of XML, and OpenDocument
text
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1.2.2 LaTeX / pdf
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Assuming a LaTeX engine such as tetex or texlive is installed with the
required modules (done automatically on selection of sisu-pdf in
Debian )
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Having moved to the directory that contains the markup samples (see
instructions above if necessary), choose a file and run sisu against it
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sisu -pv free_as_in_freedom.rms_and_free_software.sam_williams.sst
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sisu -3 free_as_in_freedom.rms_and_free_software.sam_williams.sst
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should generate most available output formats: html including a
concordance file, opendocument text format, plaintext, XHTML and
various forms of XML, and OpenDocument text and pdf
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1.2.3 relational database - postgresql, sqlite
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Relational databases need some setting up - you must have permission to
create the database and write to it when you run sisu.
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Assuming you have the database installed and the requisite permissions
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sisu --sqlite --recreate
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sisu --sqlite -v --import
free_as_in_freedom.rms_and_free_software.sam_williams.sst
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sisu --pgsql --recreate
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sisu --pgsql -v --import
free_as_in_freedom.rms_and_free_software.sam_williams.sst
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1.3 Getting Help
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1.3.1 The man pages
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Type:
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man sisu
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The man pages are also available online, though not always kept as up
to date as within the package itself:
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1.3.2 Built in help
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sisu --help
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sisu --help --env
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sisu --help --commands
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sisu --help --markup
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1.3.3 The home page
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1.4 Markup Samples
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A number of markup samples (along with output) are available off:
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Additional markup samples are packaged separately in the file:
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On Debian they are available in non-free5 to include
them it is necessary to include non-free in your /etc/apt/source.list
or obtain them from the sisu home site.
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the Debian Free Software guidelines require that everything
distributed within Debian can be changed - and the documents are
authors' works that while freely distributable are not freely
changeable.
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Endnotes