https://nodejs.org/#download 

./configure
make
make install 

npm install -g gitbook-cli


gitbook -V 

$ mkdir test_gitbook
$ touch README.md

$ touch SUMMARY.md
$ vim SUMMARY.md

$ gitbook init
$ tree . #查看建立的目录和文件

$ gitbook serve .

 http://localhost:4000 

$ mkdir /tmp/gitbook
$ gitbook build --output=/tmp/gitbook

$ sudo npm install gitbook-pdf -g

Downloading http://cdn.bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-1.9.7-linux-i686.tar.bz2
Saving to /usr/local/lib/node_modules/gitbook-pdf/node_modules/phantomjs/phantomjs/phantomjs-1.9.7-linux-i686.tar.bz2
Error: connect ETIMEDOUT
  at exports._errnoException (util.js:746:11)
  at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:1010:19)
npm ERR! Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "gitbook-pdf" "-g"
npm ERR! node v0.12.7
npm ERR! npm v2.11.3
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE


npm ERR! phantomjs@1.9.7-5 install: `node install.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the phantomjs@1.9.7-5 install script 'node install.js'.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the phantomjs package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!   node install.js
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!   npm owner ls phantomjs
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.


npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!   /home/wangxq/repository/phantomjs/npm-debug.log

$ git clone git://github.com/ariya/phantomjs.git
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential g++ flex bison gperf ruby perl \

 libsqlite3-dev libfontconfig1-dev libicu-dev libfreetype6 libssl-dev \

 libpng-dev libjpeg-dev python libx11-dev libxext-dev    #安装编译需要的工具和依赖
$ cd phantomjs
$ git checkout 1.9.7 #注意：这里的1.9.7是phantom的版本号，可以由错误报告的第一行找出 
$ ./build.sh --jobs 4
$ sudo cp bin/phantomjs /bin/
$ sudo npm install gitbook-pdf -g #重新进行安装

$ sudo apt-get install calibre 
$ gitbook -v 2.1.0 pdf .

info: start conversion to pdf ....ERROR


Error: Command failed: /bin/sh -c ebook-convert /tmp/tmp-29384ctltwbk/SUMMARY.html /tmp/tmp-29384ctltwbk/index.pdf --title="" --comments="这本书是gitbook的一个例子" --language="en" --book-producer="GitBook" --publisher="GitBook" --chapter="descendant-or-self::*[contains(concat(' ', normalize-space(@class), ' '), ' book-chapter ')]" --chapter-mark="pagebreak" --page-breaks-before="/" --level1-toc="descendant-or-self::*[contains(concat(' ', normalize-space(@class), ' '), ' book-chapter-1 ')]" --level2-toc="descendant-or-self::*[contains(concat(' ', normalize-space(@class), ' '), ' book-chapter-2 ')]" --level3-toc="descendant-or-self::*[contains(concat(' ', normalize-space(@class), ' '), ' book-chapter-3 ')]" --no-chapters-in-toc --max-levels="1" --breadth-first --margin-left="62" --margin-right="62" --margin-top="56" --margin-bottom="56" --pdf-default-font-size="12" --pdf-mono-font-size="12" --paper-size="a4" --pdf-header-template="p class='header'>span>/span>/p>" --pdf-footer-template="p class='footer'>span>_SECTION_/span> span style='float:right;'>_PAGENUM_/span>/p>"
Usage: ebook-convert input_file output_file [options]


Convert an ebook from one format to another.


input_file is the input and output_file is the output. Both must be specified as the first two arguments to the command.


The output ebook format is guessed from the file extension of output_file. output_file can also be of the special format .EXT where EXT is the output file extension. In this case, the name of the output file is derived the name of the input file. Note that the filenames must not start with a hyphen. Finally, if output_file has no extension, then it is treated as a directory and an "open ebook" (OEB) consisting of HTML files is written to that directory. These files are the files that would normally have been passed to the output plugin.


After specifying the input and output file you can customize the conversion by specifying various options. The available options depend on the input and output file types. To get help on them specify the input and output file and then use the -h option.


For full documentation of the conversion system see
http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/conversion.html


Whenever you pass arguments to ebook-convert that have spaces in them, enclose the arguments in quotation marks.


ebook-convert: error: no such option: --pdf-default-font-size

$ sudo -v  wget -nv -O- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/master/setup/linux-installer.py | sudo python -c "import sys; main=lambda:sys.stderr.write('Download failed\n'); exec(sys.stdin.read()); main()"


$ gitbook -v 2.1.0 pdf . # 重新执行命令生成pdf，目标文件为book.pdf

1. http://phantomjs.org/build.html
2. http://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux