1 | <sect1 id="ch-system-man" xreflabel="Man">
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2 | <title>Installing Man-&man-version;</title>
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3 | <?dbhtml filename="man.html" dir="chapter06"?>
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4 |
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5 | <para>The Man package contains programs for finding and viewing manual pages.</para>
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6 |
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7 | <screen>&buildtime; &man-time;
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8 | &diskspace; &man-compsize;</screen>
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9 |
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10 | &aa-man-down;
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11 | &aa-man-dep;
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12 |
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13 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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14 |
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15 | <sect2>
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16 | <title>Installation of Man</title>
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17 |
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18 | <para>We'll make three adjustments to the sources of Man.</para>
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19 |
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20 | <para>The first is a patch which allows Man to work better with recent releases
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21 | of Groff. In particular, man pages will now display using the full terminal
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22 | width instead of being limited to 80 characters:</para>
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23 |
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24 | <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&man-80cols-patch;</userinput></screen>
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25 |
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26 | <para>The second is a sed substitution to add the <emphasis>-R</emphasis>
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27 | switch to the <emphasis>PAGER</emphasis> variable so that escape sequences are
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28 | properly handled by Less:</para>
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29 |
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30 | <screen><userinput>sed -i 's/-is/&R/' configure</userinput></screen>
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31 |
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32 | <para>The third is also a sed substitution to comment out the "MANPATH
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33 | /usr/man" line in the <filename>man.conf</filename> file to prevent redundant
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34 | results when using programs such as <command>whatis</command>:</para>
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35 |
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36 | <screen><userinput>sed -i 's%MANPATH./usr/man%#&%' src/man.conf.in</userinput></screen>
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37 |
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38 | <para>Now prepare Man for compilation:</para>
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39 |
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40 | <screen><userinput>./configure -default -confdir=/etc</userinput></screen>
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41 |
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42 | <para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
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43 |
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44 | <itemizedlist>
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45 | <listitem><para><userinput>-default</userinput>: This tells the configure script
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46 | to select a sensible set of default options. For example: only English man
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47 | pages, no message catalogs, man not suid, handle compressed man pages, compress
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48 | cat pages, create cat pages whenever the appropriate directory exists, follow
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49 | FHS by putting cat pages under /var/cache/man provided that that directory
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50 | exists.</para></listitem>
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51 |
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52 | <listitem><para><userinput>-confdir=/etc</userinput>: This tells the
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53 | <command>man</command> program to look for the <filename>man.conf</filename>
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54 | configuration file in the <filename>/etc</filename> directory.</para></listitem>
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55 | </itemizedlist>
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56 |
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57 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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58 |
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59 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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60 |
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61 | <para>And install it:</para>
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62 |
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63 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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64 |
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65 | <note><para>If you wish to disable SGR escape sequences, you should edit the
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66 | <filename>man.conf</filename> file and add the <emphasis>-c</emphasis> switch
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67 | to NROFF.</para></note>
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68 |
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69 | <para>You may want to also take a look at the BLFS page at
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70 | <ulink url="&blfs-root;view/cvs/postlfs/compressdoc.html"/> which deals with
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71 | formatting and compression issues for man pages.</para>
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72 |
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73 | </sect2>
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74 |
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75 | &aa-man-shortdesc;
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76 | &aa-man-desc;
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77 |
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78 | </sect1>
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79 |
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