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Comment: Migration of unmigrated content due to installation of a new plugin

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now to compile the DBD, you 'll need a Latex installation and Python, the corresponding versions on SL5 are

  • tetex-3.0-33.8.el5_5.5
  • Python 2.4.3

On on more recent Linux distributions, you'll find texlive instead of tetex, as tetex has been discontinued ... and it will work finde (Version of Texlive 2010) or newer

if you are stuck with SL5 (default at CERN, DESY, etc.) you may need a more recent version of Latex, so try 

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/afs/cern.ch/sw/XML/TL2011/2011/bin/x86_64-linux/pdflatex

this needs to be activated in compile.py

 
then proceed

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cd DBDMain
python compile.py
acroread DBD.pdf &

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More Details on Building &Editing the DBD can be found here he