Asciidoctor is a fast, open source text processor and publishing toolchain for converting AsciiDoc content to HTML5, DocBook, PDF, and other formats.
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Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the book.
Download (HTTP): https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/archive/v2.0.17/asciidoctor-2.0.17.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 76301a92afadc913404b94bb44622126
Download size: 1.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 5.3 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/asciidoctor
Build the Ruby gem:
gem build asciidoctor.gemspec
The test suite needs many Ruby gems beyond the scope of BLFS.
Now, as the root user:
gem install asciidoctor-2.0.17.gem && install -vm644 man/asciidoctor.1 /usr/share/man/man1