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Installed /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/docbook2epub-1.0.1dev-py2.6.egg
Processing dependencies for docbook2epub==1.0.1dev
Searching for epubtools
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/epubtools/
Reading http://code.google.com/p/epub-tools/
No local packages or download links found for epubtools
Best match: None
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “setup.py”, line 30, in
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File “/usr/lib64/python2.6/distutils/core.py”, line 152, in setup
dist.run_commands()
File “/usr/lib64/python2.6/distutils/dist.py”, line 975, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File “/usr/lib64/python2.6/distutils/dist.py”, line 995, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/install.py”, line 76, in run
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/install.py”, line 104, in do_egg_install
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py”, line 211, in run

File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py”, line 427, in easy_install

File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py”, line 478, in install_item

File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py”, line 519, in process_distribution

File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/pkg_resources.py”, line 563, in resolve
distributions, errors = working_set.find_plugins(
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/pkg_resources.py”, line 799, in best_match

File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/pkg_resources.py”, line 811, in obtain
raise TypeError(“Can’t add %r to environment” % (other,))
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py”, line 434, in easy_install

File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg/setuptools/package_index.py”, line 475, in fetch_distribution
AttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘clone’

Hi Dave,

I’ve updated a newer version with some instructions:

This package installs using setuptools. If you don’t have setuptools installed, run:

$ python ez_setup.py

…first.

To install the package, first install epubtools, which should be bundled in the distribution zip file:

$ cd epubtools
$ python setup.py install

Then set run the same thing in docbook2epub:

$ cd docbook2epub
$ python setup.py install

Hello,

Nice idea the README !

I have a problem with my project. It seems that the images (png) are not copied into OEBPS/images…. Is it a “feature” or a bug ?

Thanks in advance,
Jacques

It should copy images; please report any bugs in the issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/epub-tools/issues/list

This sounds great.

is there an easier way to feed the script multiple xml files? My docbook project uses xincludes and about a dozen xml files or more….

I got it running once with index.xml in the vain hope it would traverse through the xincludes, but it did not.

Thanks.

Hi Robert,

Thanks, that’s definitely a bug. It ought to do xinclude parsing but you have to tell the XML parser to do that explicitly, and I’m not. I’ll release an updated version shortly.

Version 1.0.4 has been released which includes XInclude parsing. You can get it here: http://code.google.com/p/epub-tools/downloads/detail?name=docbook2epub-1.0.4.zip

Liza, thanks for all your work on this project. This tool has definitely made docbook sexy again :)

Ha! So glad someone else is using it.