Firebird documentation building (html/pdf) howto on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx or Debian

I always need to remember howto build the firebird documentation on my ubuntu/debian machines so i decided to

write a minihowto inspired by the great document Getting and building the Firebird manual module

mkdir firebird_doc
cd firebird_doc/
export CVS_RSH=ssh
cvs -z3 -d:ext:mapopa@firebird.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/firebird co -P manual
cd manual

or you can checkout anonymous mode from sourceforge's cvs repository

cd lib/
cat _readme_libs.txt
wget http://www.firebirdsql.org/doclibs/ALLJARS.ZIP
unzip ALLJARS.ZIP
cd ..
cd tools
cat _readme_tools.txt

wget http://www.firebirdsql.org/doctools/docbook-dtd.zip
wget http://www.firebirdsql.org/doctools/docbook-stylesheets.zip
unzip docbook-dtd.zip
unzip docbook-stylesheets.zip
cd ..

Install jdk

sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

On debian is in non-free repository and must be added to apt/sources.list

Check the jdk content

dpkg -L openjdk-7-jdk

on Ubuntu

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64/

on Debian sid (unstable)

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/

cd src/build
./build.sh html
./build.sh pdf

At this point you should add some nice rendered documentation in pdf or html format

cd ../../dist/html/

google-chrome ./index.html

there are some interesting files that are not yet on the main website so is good to dig around
something like isql-fb manual or the vpn guide