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Moving short descriptions from appendix to chapter 6.

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1<sect1 id="ch06-groff">
2<title>Installing Groff-&groff-version;</title>
3<?dbhtml filename="groff.html" dir="chapter06"?>
4
5<screen>Estimated build time: &groff-time;
6Estimated required disk space: &groff-compsize;</screen>
7
8&aa-groff-shortdesc;
9&aa-groff-desc;
10
11<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
12
13<sect2>
14<title>Installation of Groff</title>
15
16<para>Groff expects the environment variable PAGE to contain the default paper
17size. For those in the United States, the command below is appropriate. If you
18live elsewhere, you may want to change <emphasis>PAGE=letter</emphasis> to
19<emphasis>PAGE=A4</emphasis>.</para>
20
21<para>Prepare Groff for compilation:</para>
22
23<screen><userinput>PAGE=letter ./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
24
25<para>Compile the package:</para>
26
27<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
28
29<para>And install it:</para>
30
31<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
32
33<para>Some documentation programs, such as <userinput>xman</userinput>,
34will not work properly without the following symlinks:</para>
35
36<screen><userinput>ln -s soelim /usr/bin/zsoelim
37ln -s eqn /usr/bin/geqn
38ln -s tbl /usr/bin/gtbl</userinput></screen>
39
40</sect2>
41
42</sect1>
43
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