Chapter 3. Using the publican package

3.1. Installing publican

3.2. Creating a Book

3.3. Files in the Book directory

3.3.1. The Makefile
3.3.2. Book_Info.xml
3.3.3. RPMs, Editions, Impressions and Versions
3.3.4. Author_Group.xml
3.3.5. Chapter.xml
3.3.6. Book_Name.xml
3.3.7. Book_Name.ent
3.3.8. Revision_History.xml

3.4. Adding Images

3.5. Building a Book

3.6. Conditional Tagging

3.7. Pre-release software and draft documentation

3.7.1. Denoting pre-release software
3.7.2. Denoting draft documentation
3.7.3. Denoting draft documentation of pre-release software

This chapter describes—the process of installing the publican package, creating books, the main configuration files, example book files, and how to build a book.

3.1. Installing publican

To install publican:

Change to the root user: $ su -
Run the following command to install the publican package: # yum install publican publican-doc

There are several brand packages available for use with publican. Run the following command as the root user to install packages for building branded books:

# yum install publican-brand

Replace brand with redhat, fedora, jboss, ovirt, or gimp.