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<sect2 role="installation">
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<title>Installation of Man-DB</title>
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- <para>Two adjustments need to be made to the sources of Man-DB.</para>
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+ <!-- <para>Two adjustments need to be made to the sources of Man-DB.</para>
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<para>The first change is a <command>sed</command> substitution to delete
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the <quote>/usr/man</quote> and <quote>/usr/local/man</quote> lines in
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the <filename>man_db.conf</filename> file to prevent redundant results
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+ when using programs such as <command>whatis</command>:</para> -->
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+
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+ <para>Use a <command>sed</command> substitution to delete
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+ the <quote>/usr/man</quote> and <quote>/usr/local/man</quote> lines in
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+ the <filename>man_db.conf</filename> file to prevent redundant results
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when using programs such as <command>whatis</command>:</para>
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<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i -e '\%\t/usr/man%d' -e '\%\t/usr/local/man%d' src/man_db.conf.in</userinput></screen>
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+ <!-- This is removed and the same thing is done using the configure
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+ command, which seems to be the more proper method
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+
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<para>The second change accounts for programs that Man-DB should be able
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to find at runtime, but that haven't been installed yet:</para>
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@@ -69,10 +77,14 @@ EOF</userinput></screen>
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manual pages. They are not part of LFS or BLFS, but you should be able
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to install them yourself after finishing LFS if you wish to do so.</para>
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+ -->
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+
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<para>Prepare Man-DB for compilation:</para>
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<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib --sysconfdir=/etc \
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- --disable-setuid</userinput></screen>
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+ --disable-setuid --with-browser=/usr/bin/lynx \
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+ --with-col=/usr/bin/col --with-vgrind=/usr/bin/vgrind \
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+ --with-grap=/usr/bin/grap</userinput></screen>
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<variablelist>
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<title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
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@@ -85,6 +97,21 @@ EOF</userinput></screen>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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+ <varlistentry>
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+ <term><parameter>--with-...</parameter></term>
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+ <listitem>
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+ <para>These four parameters are used to set some default programs.
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+ The <command>col</command> program is a part of the Util-linux-ng
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+ package, <command>lynx</command> is a text-based web browser (see BLFS
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+ for installation instructions), <command>vgrind</command> converts
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+ program sources to Groff input, and <command>grap</command> is useful
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+ for typesetting graphs in Groff documents. The <command>vgrind</command>
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+ and <command>grap</command> programs are not normally needed for viewing
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+ manual pages. They are not part of LFS or BLFS, but you should be able
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+ to install them yourself after finishing LFS if you wish to do so.</para>
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+ </listitem>
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+ </varlistentry>
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+
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</variablelist>
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<para>Compile the package:</para>
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@@ -318,7 +345,7 @@ make install</userinput></screen>
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<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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<seglistitem>
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- <seg>accessdb, apropos, catman, convert-mans, lexgrog, man, mandb,
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+ <seg>apropos, catman, convert-mans, lexgrog, man, mandb,
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manpath, whatis, and zsoelim</seg>
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</seglistitem>
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</segmentedlist>
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@@ -328,7 +355,7 @@ make install</userinput></screen>
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<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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<?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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- <varlistentry id="accessdb">
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+ <!-- <varlistentry id="accessdb">
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<term><command>accessdb</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Dumps the <command>whatis</command> database contents in
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@@ -337,7 +364,7 @@ make install</userinput></screen>
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<primary sortas="b-accessdb">accessdb</primary>
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</indexterm>
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</listitem>
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- </varlistentry>
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+ </varlistentry> -->
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<varlistentry id="apropos">
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<term><command>apropos</command></term>
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Randy McMurchy