From 780b72d47b4ec1b2ff2115cd83f5045103ac45ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Heinrich Schuchardt Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 03:36:52 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] README: Explain usage of prefix when installing Installing the man pages to /usr may not be the preferred option when working on a system with a packaging system like apt or yum, where /usr is reserved for packages and /usr/local or /opt is used for user addons. README should explain how to install to a path different to /usr. Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- README | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index 447a92583..0ec038fed 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ This package contains Linux man pages for sections Install by copying to your favourite location. "make install" will just copy them to /usr/share/man/man[1-8]. +To install to a path different from /usr use +"make install prefix=/install/path". "make" will move the pages from this package that are older than the already installed ones to a subdirectory `not_installed', then remove old versions (compressed or not),