Title: SiSU - SiSU information Structuring Universe / Structured information, Serialized Units - Quickstart, installation and use
Creator: Ralph Amissah
Rights: Copyright (C) Ralph Amissah 2007, part of SiSU documentation, License GPL 3
Type: information
Subject: ebook, epublishing, electronic book, electronic publishing, electronic document, electronic citation, data structure, citation systems, search
Date created: 2006-09-06
Date available: 2006-09-06
Date issued: 2006-09-06
Date modified: 2007-09-16
Date: 2007-09-16
SiSU - SiSU information Structuring Universe / Structured information, Serialized Units - Quickstart, installation and use,
Ralph Amissah
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Quickstart - SiSU installation and use 2 1. Quickstart - Getting Started Howto 3 1.1 Installation 4 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. 5 1.1.1 Debian Installation 6 SiSU is available directly from the Debian Sid and testing archives (and possibly Ubuntu), assuming your /etc/apt/sources.list is set accordingly: 7 8        aptitude update
       aptitude install sisu-complete    
The following /etc/apt/sources.list setting permits the download of additional markup samples: 9 10      #/etc/apt/sources.list

       deb http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
       deb-src http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
     d    
The aptitude commands become: 11 12        aptitude update
       aptitude install sisu-complete sisu-markup-samples    
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 13 14      #/etc/apt/sources.list

       deb http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/archive unstable main non-free
       deb-src http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/archive unstable main non-free    
repeat the aptitude commands 15 16        aptitude update
       aptitude install sisu-complete sisu-markup-samples    
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. 17 1.1.2 RPM Installation 18 RPMs are provided though untested, they are prepared by running alien against the source package, and against the debs. 19 They may be downloaded from: 20 <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/SiSU/download.html#rpm> 21 as root type: 22 rpm -i [rpm package name] 23 1.1.3 Installation from source 24 To install SiSU from source check information at: 25 <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/SiSU/download.html#current> 26 download the source package 27 Unpack the source 28 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: 29 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. 1. There is nothing to stop MySQL support being added in future. 30 setup.rb 31 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: 32 33          ruby setup.rb config
         ruby setup.rb setup
         #[and as root:]
         ruby setup.rb install    
further information on setup.rb is available from: 34 <http://i.loveruby.net/en/projects/setup/> 35 <http://i.loveruby.net/en/projects/setup/doc/usage.html> 36 "install" 37 The "install" file provided is an installer prepared using "rant". In the root directory of the unpacked SiSU as root type: 38 ruby install base 39 or for a more complete installation: 40 ruby install 41 or 42 ruby install base 43 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. 44 Further information on "rant" is available from: 45 <http://make.rubyforge.org/> 46 <http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=615> 47 For a list of alternative actions you may type: 48 ruby install help 49 ruby install -T 50 1.2 Testing SiSU, generating output 51 To check which version of sisu is installed: 52 sisu -v 53 Depending on your mode of installation one or a number of markup sample files may be found either in the directory: 54 ... 55 or 56 ... 57 change directory to the appropriate one: 58 cd /usr/share/doc/sisu/sisu_markup_samples/dfsg 59 1.2.1 basic text, plaintext, html, XML, ODF 60 Having moved to the directory that contains the markup samples (see instructions above if necessary), choose a file and run sisu against it 61 sisu -NhwoabxXyv free_as_in_freedom.rms_and_free_software.sam_williams.sst 62 this will generate html including a concordance file, opendocument text format, plaintext, XHTML and various forms of XML, and OpenDocument text 63 1.2.2 LaTeX / pdf 64 Assuming a LaTeX engine such as tetex or texlive is installed with the required modules (done automatically on selection of sisu-pdf in Debian) 65 Having moved to the directory that contains the markup samples (see instructions above if necessary), choose a file and run sisu against it 66 sisu -pv free_as_in_freedom.rms_and_free_software.sam_williams.sst 67 sisu -3 free_as_in_freedom.rms_and_free_software.sam_williams.sst 68 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 69 1.2.3 relational database - postgresql, sqlite 70 Relational databases need some setting up - you must have permission to create the database and write to it when you run sisu. 71 Assuming you have the database installed and the requisite permissions 72 sisu --sqlite --recreate 73 sisu --sqlite -v --import free_as_in_freedom.rms_and_free_software.sam_williams.sst 74 sisu --pgsql --recreate 75 sisu --pgsql -v --import free_as_in_freedom.rms_and_free_software.sam_williams.sst 76 1.3 Getting Help 77 1.3.1 The man pages 78 Type: 79 man sisu 80 The man pages are also available online, though not always kept as up to date as within the package itself: 81 sisu.1 2 2. <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/man/sisu.1> 82 sisu.8 3 3. <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/man/sisu.8> 83 man directory 4 4. <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/man> 84 1.3.2 Built in help 85 sisu --help 86 sisu --help --env 87 sisu --help --commands 88 sisu --help --markup 89 1.3.3 The home page 90 <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu> 91 <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/SiSU> 92 1.4 Markup Samples 93 A number of markup samples (along with output) are available off: 94 <http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/SiSU/2.html> 95 Additional markup samples are packaged separately in the file: 96 * 97 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. 5. 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. 98 Endnotes 0