| 1 | <sect1 id="ch06-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>Estimated build time: &man-time;
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| 8 | Estimated required disk space: &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 <userinput>whatis</userinput>:</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 | <userinput>man</userinput> 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
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| 66 | edit the man.conf file and add the <userinput>-c</userinput> argument
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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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