# System Setup: Editors, Validation and Transformations

In this section, we will cover some of the tools that you may want to use to create your own LDP documentation. If you use some other tool to assist you in writing documents for the LDP, please drop us a line and we'll add a blurb for it here. has contact information.

## Tools for your operating system

A few notes on setting up your system for DocBook publishing. These tools focus more on the transformation of documents from DocBook to XHTML (for example).

### Tools For Your Operating System

Debian

  http://www.docbook.org/wiki/moin.cgi/DebianGnuLinuxPackages

  Morgon Kanter suggests `apt-get install docbook-xml docbook-xsl xsltproc` as the minimum requirements.

Fedora (aka the new RedHat)

  Notes contributed by Charles Curley.

  Tools for Docbook SGML and XML are included in the distrubution. So are Emacs and PSGML mode, although you will have to customize your `.emacs`. If you are missing a package after installing Fedora, get familiar with yum or apt.

  Installation instructions: none; use Red Hat 9 until they are written: .

Mandrake

  Notes contributed by Artemio.

  In Mandrake (as of my current 9.2), all the stuff including openjade, xmlto, docbook-utils etc. comes as standard.

  So I just needed to get the TLDP XSL sheet and that's all. Didn't ever have any dependency or other problems, everything works fine (knock on wood :-)).

RedHat

  According to Hal Burgiss, your system is likely already ready to edit and process DocBook documents without installing any additional packages.

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