lfs-book/chapter06/groff-inst.xml

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<title>Installation of Groff</title>

<para>Groff expects an enviornment variable PAGE to contain the default paper size.
For those in the United States, the text below is appropriate.  For those who's default
paper size is the larger "A4", you may safely change the value used when we configure
the Groff package:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>PAGE=letter ./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen></para>

<para>Compile the package:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para>

<para>And install it:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>

<para>Some documentation programs, such as <userinput>xman</userinput>,
will not work work properly without the following symlinks:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>ln -s soelim /usr/bin/zsoelim
ln -s eqn /usr/bin/geqn
ln -s tbl /usr/bin/gtbl</userinput></screen></para>

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