Installing Man-1.5j

Estimated build time:           1 minute
Estimated required disk space:  1 MB

Installation of Man

Run the following commands to install man:

./configure -default &&
make &&
make install

You may want to take a look at the man hint at http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/man.txt which deals with formatting and compression issues for man pages.

Contents of man-1.5j

Program Files

apropos, makewhatis, man, man2dvi, man2html and whatis

Descriptions

apropos

apropos searches a set of database files containing short descriptions of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard output.

makewhatis

makewhatis reads all the manual pages contained in given sections of manpath or the pre-formatted pages contained in the given sections of catpath. For each page, it writes a line in the whatis database; each line consists of the name of the page and a short description, separated by a dash. The description is extracted using the content of the NAME section of the manual page.

man

man formats and displays the on-line manual pages.

man2dvi

man2dvi converts a manual page into dvi format.

man2html

man2html converts a manual page into html.

whatis

whatis searches a set of database files containing short descriptions of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard output. Only complete word matches are displayed.

Dependencies

Man-1.5i2 needs the following to be installed:


bash: sh
binutils: as, ld
bzip2: bzip2
fileutils: chmod, cp, install, mkdir, mv, rm
gcc: gcc
grep: grep
gzip: gunzip, zcat
make: make
mawk: awk
sed: sed
sh-utils: echo
textutils: cat