| 1 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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| 2 |
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| 3 | <sect2>
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| 4 | <title>Installation of Man</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 |
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| 7 |
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| 8 | <para>Prepare Man to be compiled:</para>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <para><screen><userinput>
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| 11 | patch -Np1 -i ../man-&man-80cols-patch-version;-80cols.patch &&
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| 12 | patch -Np1 -i ../man-&man-manpath-patch-version;-manpath.patch &&
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| 13 | patch -Np1 -i ../man-&man-pager-patch-version;-pager.patch &&
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| 14 | PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin:/bin \
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| 15 | ./configure -default -confdir=/etc
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| 16 | </userinput></screen></para>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <para>Continue with compiling the package:</para>
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| 19 |
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| 20 | <para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para>
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| 21 |
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| 22 | <para>And finish off installing the package:</para>
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| 23 |
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| 24 | <para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>
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| 25 |
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| 26 | <note><para>If you wish to disable SGR escape sequences, you should
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| 27 | edit the man.conf file and add the <userinput>-c</userinput> argument
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| 28 | to nroff.</para></note>
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| 29 |
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| 30 | <para>You may want to take a look at the man hint
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| 31 | at <ulink url="&hints-root;man.txt"/>, which deals with formatting
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| 32 | and compression issues for man pages.</para>
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| 33 |
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| 34 | </sect2>
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| 35 |
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| 36 | <sect2>
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| 37 | <title>Command explanations</title>
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| 38 |
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| 39 | <para><userinput>patch...:</userinput>
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| 40 | These three patches comment out one of the lines in the
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| 41 | <filename>man.conf</filename> file (MANPATH /usr/man) because it will create
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| 42 | redundant results when using programs like <userinput>whatis</userinput>.
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| 43 | It also adds the <emphasis>-R</emphasis> option to the
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| 44 | <emphasis>PAGER</emphasis> variable so man pages are displayed properly.
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| 45 | Lastly, the patch fixes the problem where man pages are not formatted with
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| 46 | more than 80 columns when used with the recent groff versions.</para>
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| 47 |
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| 48 | <para><userinput>PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin:/bin ./configure -default</userinput>:
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| 49 | The paths to some programs get written into man's files. Unfortunately, the
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| 50 | configure script picks the last location in PATH rather than the first
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| 51 | where a program is found. By appending /usr/bin:/bin to PATH for the
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| 52 | ./configure command, we make sure that man doesn't use the /static versions
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| 53 | of our programs.</para>
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| 54 |
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| 55 | </sect2>
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| 56 |
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