lfs-book/chapter06/man-inst.xml

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<title>Installation of Man</title>

<para>Before Man is installed, the man patch file needs to be unpacked.</para>

<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../man-&man-version;.patch &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>./configure -default &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>make &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>

<para>You may want to take a look at the man hint at <ulink
url="&hint-root;man.txt">&hint-root;man.txt</ulink> 
which deals with formatting and compression issues for man pages.</para>

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