%general-entities; ]> man-db &man-db-version;

&man-db-url;

Man-DB Prepare Man-DB for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --libexecdir=/usr/lib \ --docdir=/usr/share/doc/man-db-&man-db-version; \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --disable-setuid \ --with-browser=/usr/bin/lynx \ --with-vgrind=/usr/bin/vgrind \ --with-grap=/usr/bin/grap --disable-setuid This disables making the man program setuid to user man. --with-... These three parameters are used to set some default programs. lynx is a text-based web browser (see BLFS for installation instructions), vgrind converts program sources to Groff input, and grap is useful for typesetting graphs in Groff documents. The vgrind and grap programs are not normally needed for viewing manual pages. They are not part of LFS or BLFS, but you should be able to install them yourself after finishing LFS if you wish to do so. Compile the package: make To test the results, issue: make check Install the package: make install The following table shows the character set that Man-DB assumes manual pages installed under /usr/share/man/<ll> will be encoded with. In addition to this, Man-DB correctly determines if manual pages installed in that directory are UTF-8 encoded. Language (code) Encoding Language (code) Encoding Danish (da) ISO-8859-1 Croatian (hr) ISO-8859-2 German (de) ISO-8859-1 Hungarian (hu) ISO-8859-2 English (en) ISO-8859-1 Japanese (ja) EUC-JP Spanish (es) ISO-8859-1 Korean (ko) EUC-KR Estonian (et) ISO-8859-1 Lithuanian (lt) ISO-8859-13 Finnish (fi) ISO-8859-1 Latvian (lv) ISO-8859-13 French (fr) ISO-8859-1 Macedonian (mk) ISO-8859-5 Irish (ga) ISO-8859-1 Polish (pl) ISO-8859-2 Galician (gl) ISO-8859-1 Romanian (ro) ISO-8859-2 Indonesian (id) ISO-8859-1 Russian (ru) KOI8-R Icelandic (is) ISO-8859-1 Slovak (sk) ISO-8859-2 Italian (it) ISO-8859-1 Slovenian (sl) ISO-8859-2 Norwegian Bokmal (nb) ISO-8859-1 Serbian Latin (sr@latin) ISO-8859-2 Dutch (nl) ISO-8859-1 Serbian (sr) ISO-8859-5 Norwegian Nynorsk (nn) ISO-8859-1 Turkish (tr) ISO-8859-9 Norwegian (no) ISO-8859-1 Ukrainian (uk) KOI8-U Portuguese (pt) ISO-8859-1 Vietnamese (vi) TCVN5712-1 Swedish (sv) ISO-8859-1 Simplified Chinese (zh_CN) GBK Belarusian (be) CP1251 Simplified Chinese, Singapore (zh_SG) GBK Bulgarian (bg) CP1251 Traditional Chinese, Hong Kong (zh_HK) BIG5HKSCS Czech (cs) ISO-8859-2 Traditional Chinese (zh_TW) BIG5 Greek (el) ISO-8859-7 Manual pages in languages not in the list are not supported. Installed programs Installed directories accessdb, apropos (link to whatis), catman, lexgrog, man, mandb, manpath, whatis, and zsoelim /usr/lib/man-db, /usr/share/doc/man-db Short Descriptions accessdb Dumps the whatis database contents in human-readable form accessdb apropos Searches the whatis database and displays the short descriptions of system commands that contain a given string apropos catman Creates or updates the pre-formatted manual pages catman lexgrog Displays one-line summary information about a given manual page lexgrog man Formats and displays the requested manual page man mandb Creates or updates the whatis database mandb manpath Displays the contents of $MANPATH or (if $MANPATH is not set) a suitable search path based on the settings in man.conf and the user's environment manpath whatis Searches the whatis database and displays the short descriptions of system commands that contain the given keyword as a separate word whatis zsoelim Reads files and replaces lines of the form .so file by the contents of the mentioned file zsoelim