Build HowTo and Tips

Install

$ sudo aptitude install -y retext git nodejs npm
$ sudo ln -fs /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node
$ sudo aptitude install -y calibre fonts-arphic-gbsn00lp
$ sudo npm install gitbook-cli -g

Download

$ git clone https://github.com/tinyclub/elinux.git && cd elinux/

Build

$ gitbook build // make
$ gitbook pdf   // make pdf

Tips

Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND elinux.org

$ gitbook pdf
info: loading book configuration....
warn: you should specify a gitbook version to use in your book.json, for example: 2.x.x
info: OK
info: >0 plugins loaded
info: Parsing multilingual book, with 1 lanuages
info: Preparing language book en
info: loading book configuration....OK
info: >0 plugins loaded
info: start generation with pdf generator
info: clean pdf generatorOK
info: start generation with pdf generator
info: clean pdf generatorOK
stream.js:94
      throw er; // Unhandled stream error in pipe.
            ^
Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND elinux.org
    at errnoException (dns.js:44:10)
    at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookup [as oncomplete] (dns.js:94:26)

• Solution

    $ ping elinux.org
    PING elinux.org (140.211.15.183) 56(84) bytes of data.
  
    $ sudo -s
    $ echo "140.211.15.183 elinux.org" >> /etc/hosts