AsciiDoc
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# Download and Install AsciiDoc

See the README and INSTALL pages for install prerequisites and procedures.

## Distribution Archives

These distribution archives are also available, along with previous AsciiDoc versions, at the SourceForge http://sourceforge.net/projects/asciidoc/.

## Mercurial Repository

The AsciiDoc Mercurial repository is hosted by ShareSource. ShareSource is a Mercurial friendly website for hosting Open Source projects.

To browse the repo go to http://hg.sharesource.org/asciidoc/.

## Prepackaged Versions

The following platform specific packages are available:

Debian GNU/Linux

  If you use Debian or a Debian based distribution there’s an AsciiDoc Debian package available. Thanks to Fredrik Steen who built and maintains the Debian AsciiDoc package.

Gentoo Linux

  If you use Gentoo Linux there’s a Gentoo AsciiDoc package available. Thanks to Brandon Philips for writing the ebuild.

Fedora Linux

  With help from Terje Røsten, Chris Wright added asciidoc to Fedora Extras which is available in the default installation. To install asciidoc execute the following command:

      $ yum install asciidoc

Slackware Linux

  John Calixto has created a Slackware package for AsciiDoc which can be downloaded from http://linuxpackages.net/.

Ark Linux

  Bernhard Rosenkraenzer added AsciiDoc to Ark Linux — the package is available from the Ark Linux repository at http://arklinux.osuosl.org/dockyard-devel/, so Ark Linux users should just run `apt-get install asciidoc`.

T2 Linux

  Christian Wiese added AsciiDoc to the T2 Linux repository at http://svn.exactcode.de/t2/trunk/package/textproc/asciidoc/. To build and install the package on a T2 system, run `./scripts/Emerge-Pkg asciidoc` from within your T2 source directory (default: `/usr/src/t2-src`).

Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora and CentOS packages

  Dag Wieers has built AsciiDoc RPMs for a number of Red Hat based distributions, they can be downloaded from http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/asciidoc/.

CSW Package for Sun Solaris

  Ben Walton has created a CSW package for AsciiDoc, you can find it here: http://opencsw.org/packages/asciidoc.

See also Packager Notes in the AsciiDoc User Guide.

## Copying

Copyright © 2002-2009 Stuart Rackham. Free use of AsciiDoc is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).