Author: Jen Linton
Keywords: installing DITA Open Toolkit, FOP processor, installing on Linux, FOP, CLASSPATH, CLASSPATH environment variable, fop.jar, batik.jar

# Installing FOP on Linux

1. Enter the URL: http://apache.tradebit.com/pub/xml/fop/.
2. From the FOP page, in the Name column, select "fop-1.0-bin.tar.gz" .
3. Save and extract the package file into a Linux home directory.
4. Set the CLASSPATH environment variable for the following jar files:
   - build/fop.jar
   - lib/avalon-framework-4.2.0.jar
   - lib/batik-all-1.7.jar
   - lib/commons-io-1.3.1.jar
   - lib/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar
   - lib/serializer-2.7.0.jar
   - lib/xalan-2.7.0.jar
   - lib/xercesImpl-2.7.1.jar
   - lib/xml-apis-1.3.04.jar
   - lib/xml-apis-ext-1.3.04.jar
   - lib/xmlgraphics-commons-1.4.jar

       export CLASSPATH=${fop_dir}/build/fop.jar:\
                        ${fop_dir}/lib/avalon-framework-4.2.0.jar:\
                        ${fop_dir}/lib/batik-all-1.7.jar:\
                        ${fop_dir}/lib/commons-io-1.3.1.jar:\
                        ${fop_dir}/lib/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar:\
                        ${fop_dir}/lib/serializer-2.7.0.jar:\
                        ${fop_dir}/lib/xalan-2.7.0.jar:\
                        ${fop_dir}/lib/xercesImpl-2.7.1.jar:\
                        ${fop_dir}/lib/xml-apis-1.3.04.jar:\
                        ${fop_dir}/lib/xml-apis-ext-1.3.04.jar:\
                        ${fop_dir}/lib/xmlgraphics-commons-1.4.jar:\
                        ${CLASSPATH}

Parent topic: Installing the optional tools