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 LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.
Download (HTTP): https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/archive/v2.0.20/asciidoctor-2.0.20.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 11f40bda9a2c07f6b632a0fc91b43a13
Download size: 1.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 5.4 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
When building this package, the following message may appear:
fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
. This is normal, and the package will continue building past this point.
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-2.0.20.gem && install -vm644 man/asciidoctor.1 /usr/share/man/man1