%general-entities; ]> Less The Less package contains a text file viewer. &buildtime; 0.1 SBU &diskspace; 3.4 MB Less installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed. Prepare Less for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin --sysconfdir=/etc The meaning of the configure option: --sysconfdir=/etc: This option tells the programs created by the package to look in /etc for their configuration files. Compile the package: make Now install it: make install Installed programs: less, lessecho and lesskey less less is a file viewer or pager. It displays the contents of the given file, letting you scroll around, find strings, and jump to marks. lessecho lessecho is needed to expand meta-characters, such as * and ?, in filenames on Unix systems. lesskey lesskey is used to specify the key bindings for less.