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<sect1 id="ch06-man">
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<title>Installing Man-&man-version;</title>
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<?dbhtml filename="man.html" dir="chapter06"?>
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<screen>Estimated build time: &man-time;
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Estimated required disk space: &man-compsize;</screen>
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&aa-man-shortdesc;
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&aa-man-dep;
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<sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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<sect2>
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<title>Installation of Man</title>
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<para>We'll make three adjustments to the sources of Man.</para>
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<para>The first patch comments out the "MANPATH /usr/man" line in the
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<filename>man.conf</filename> file to prevent redundant results when using
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programs such as <userinput>whatis</userinput>:</para>
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<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&man-manpath-patch;</userinput></screen>
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<para>The second patch adds the <emphasis>-R</emphasis> option to the
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<emphasis>PAGER</emphasis> variable so that escape sequences are
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handled properly:</para>
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<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&man-pager-patch;</userinput></screen>
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<para>The third and last patch prevents a problem when man pages not formatted
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with more than 80 columns are used in conjunction with recent releases of
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<userinput>groff</userinput>:</para>
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<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&man-80cols-patch;</userinput></screen>
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<para>Now prepare Man for compilation:</para>
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<screen><userinput>./configure -default -confdir=/etc</userinput></screen>
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<para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para><userinput>-default</userinput>: This tells the configure script
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to select a sensible set of default options. For example: only English man
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pages, no message catalogs, man not suid, handle compressed man pages, compress
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cat pages, create cat pages whenever the appropriate directory exists, follow
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FHS by putting cat pages under /var/cache/man provided that the directory
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exists.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><userinput>-confdir=/etc</userinput>: This tells the
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<userinput>man</userinput> program to look for the <filename>man.conf</filename>
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configuration file in the <filename>/etc</filename> directory.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>Compile the package:</para>
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<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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<para>And install it:</para>
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<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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<note><para>If you wish to disable SGR escape sequences, you should
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edit the man.conf file and add the <userinput>-c</userinput> argument
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to nroff.</para></note>
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<para>You may want to also take a look at the BLFS page at
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<ulink url="&blfs-root;view/cvs/postlfs/compressdoc.html"/> which deals with
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formatting and compression issues for man pages.</para>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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