Re: building pdfs

On 2014-07-26 14:14:15 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> > Is there any standard set of packages on any supported platform that
> > will allow for building the doc PDFs? So far I have not found one on
> > either Fedora 20 or Ubuntu 14.04, but maybe I'm missing something.
>
> On either Fedora or RHEL, installing the "authoring tools" package group
> (not quite the right name, but it's close) has worked for me for many
> years. I've not bothered to figure out what the minimum required subset
> of that might be.
>
> Not sure what the Debian equivalent is, but borka/guaibasaurus is able to
> build the docs, so the packages certainly are available. Peter might have
> a better idea.

'apt-get build-dep postgresql-$version' IIRC does the trick
there. Installs a thing or two more, but those are things that a debian
buildfarm member is going have installed anyway.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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