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-0.20.5-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:
    export CLASSPATH=${fop_dir}/build/fop.jar:${fop_dir}/lib/batik.jar:
               ${fop_dir}/lib/avalon-framework-cvs-20020806.jar:${CLASSPATH}