Installing the DITA Open Toolkit

The DITA Open Toolkit is downloaded from the SourceForge web site. For this installation, you will access the web sites for each of the required installation items, including Ant, Java Development Toolkit, JavaHelp, Apache FOP, and SAXON XSLT Processor.

  1. Enter the URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dita-ot
  2. On the SourceForge.net page, find dita-ot 1.2
  3. Select dita-ot 1.2. The Dita-ot table displays.
  4. Select DITA-OT1.2_bin.tar.gz The SourceForge.net page opens with a list of download options.
  5. Save and extract the package file into a Linux home directory.
    Note: You can extract all package files and toolkits either to your private home directory for exclusive usage or to /usr/local/share/ directory for sharing.
  6. Set the CLASSPATH environment variable for dost.jar