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 Texinfo-&texinfo-version; Texinfo <para>The Texinfo package contains programs for reading, writing, and converting info pages.</para> <segmentedlist> <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle> <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle> <seglistitem> <seg>&texinfo-fin-sbu;</seg> <seg>&texinfo-fin-du;</seg> </seglistitem> </segmentedlist> </sect2> <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Texinfo Prepare Texinfo for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr Compile the package: make To test the results, issue: make check Install the package: make install Optionally, install the components belonging in a TeX installation: make TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf install-tex The meaning of the make parameter: TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf The TEXMF makefile variable holds the location of the root of the TeX tree if, for example, a TeX package will be installed later. The Info documentation system uses a plain text file to hold its list of menu entries. The file is located at /usr/share/info/dir. Unfortunately, due to occasional problems in the Makefiles of various packages, it can sometimes get out of sync with the info pages installed on the system. If the /usr/share/info/dir file ever needs to be recreated, the following optional commands will accomplish the task: pushd /usr/share/info rm -v dir for f in * do install-info $f dir 2>/dev/null done popd Contents of Texinfo Installed programs Installed library Installed directories info, install-info, makeinfo (link to texi2any), pdftexi2dvi, pod2texi, texi2any, texi2dvi, texi2pdf, and texindex MiscXS.so, Parsetexi.so, and XSParagraph.so (all in /usr/lib/texinfo) /usr/share/texinfo and /usr/lib/texinfo Short Descriptions info Used to read info pages which are similar to man pages, but often go much deeper than just explaining all the available command line options [For example, compare man bison and info bison.] info install-info Used to install info pages; it updates entries in the info index file install-info makeinfo Translates the given Texinfo source documents into info pages, plain text, or HTML makeinfo pdftexi2dvi Used to format the given Texinfo document into a Portable Document Format (PDF) file pdftexi2dvi pod2texi Converts Pod to Texinfo format pod2texi texi2any Translate Texinfo source documentation to various other formats texi2any texi2dvi Used to format the given Texinfo document into a device-independent file that can be printed texi2dvi texi2pdf Used to format the given Texinfo document into a Portable Document Format (PDF) file texi2pdf texindex Used to sort Texinfo index files texindex