# ERROR: AsciiDoc 'a2x' command is not installed but is required to build **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [February 5, 2014, 5:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-asciidoc-a2x-command-is-not-installed-but-is-required-to-build/14495 "2014-02-05T17:28:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Yuri\_Lukyanov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ed655f/32.png) [@Yuri\_Lukyanov](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Yuri_Lukyanov)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 5:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-asciidoc-a2x-command-is-not-installed-but-is-required-to-build/14495/1 "2014-02-05T17:28:06Z")
The recent devel branch requires a2x to make rpm. sed “s/%VERSION%/1.5/” docs/man/man1/ansible-pull.1.asciidoc.in \> docs/man/man1/ansible-pull.1.asciidoc ERROR: AsciiDoc ‘a2x’ command is not installed but is required to build docs/man/man1/ansible.1 docs/man/man1/ansible-playbook.1 docs/man/man1/ansible-pull.1 docs/man/man1/ansible-doc.1 make: \*\*\* [docs/man/man1/ansible-pull.1] Error 1 rm docs/man/man1/ansible-pull.1.asciidoc What am I supposed to do about that? ---
**Author:** ![tannerjc](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/tannerjc/32/985_2.png) [@tannerjc](https://forum.ansible.com/u/tannerjc)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-asciidoc-a2x-command-is-not-installed-but-is-required-to-build/14495/2 "2014-02-05T18:23:18Z")
Please provide details about what OS/version you are building the RPM on. ---
**Author:** ![adam2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@adam2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/adam2)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-asciidoc-a2x-command-is-not-installed-but-is-required-to-build/14495/3 "2014-02-05T18:24:48Z")
root@urk:~# apt-file search bin/a2x asciidoc: /usr/bin/a2x And "yum search asciidoc" comes up with results. Does rpm.spec have a way to list a series of build dependencies? I'm a Debian guy, and that would be done thru debian/control:Build-Depends ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-asciidoc-a2x-command-is-not-installed-but-is-required-to-build/14495/4 "2014-02-05T18:30:29Z")
Asciidoc produces no results on what platform? Confused by your apt-file command above. It could be added to BuildRequires, though this is more for packaging relative to the tarball. The build system will attempt to do this prior to building the RPM (and we are ok with this, because RPM is only one of many things we use and should not drive the build system) We do “make rpm” from checkout, which calls the docs target. ---
**Author:** ![C\_Morgan\_Hamill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@C\_Morgan\_Hamill](https://forum.ansible.com/u/C_Morgan_Hamill)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-asciidoc-a2x-command-is-not-installed-but-is-required-to-build/14495/5 "2014-02-05T18:31:02Z")
Excerpts from Adam Heath's message of 2014-02-05 13:24:48 -0500: > root@urk:~# apt-file search bin/a2x > asciidoc: /usr/bin/a2x > > And "yum search asciidoc" comes up with results. > > Does rpm.spec have a way to list a series of build dependencies? I'm a > Debian guy, and that would be done thru debian/control:Build-Depends In the spec file, 'BuildRequires: asciidoc' in the metadata section at the top of the file. ---
**Author:** ![adam2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@adam2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/adam2)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 6:36pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-asciidoc-a2x-command-is-not-installed-but-is-required-to-build/14495/6 "2014-02-05T18:36:48Z")
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**Author:** ![adam2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@adam2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/adam2)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-asciidoc-a2x-command-is-not-installed-but-is-required-to-build/14495/7 "2014-02-05T18:38:29Z")
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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-asciidoc-a2x-command-is-not-installed-but-is-required-to-build/14495/8 "2014-02-05T18:40:04Z")
This is because there are pre-build steps that happen before the package build step. Adding it to BuildRequires hurts nothing, but it would not build the docs (which is ok, as they are in the release tarball that the RPM build references).