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@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +INSTALLATION + +NOTE! The default configuration file has moved from +/usr/lib/man.config or /etc/man.conf to /usr/share/misc/man.conf. +Remove the former two. +The country code dk has been replaced by the language code da. +If you had Danish man pages installed, these should probably be moved. + +The quick installation goes in three steps: + 1. configure -default + 2. make + 3. make install + +This should suffice for most people. The defaults are: + Only English man pages, no message catalogs, man not suid, + handle compressed man pages, compress cat pages, create cat pages + whenever the appropriate directory exists, + follow FHS by putting cat pages under /var/cache/man provided that + that directory exists. + +In order to select man pages in other languages, replace Step 1 by + 1. configure +lang de,en,nl +or perhaps (especially when making a general distribution) by + 1. configure +lang all +This yields all the defaults, except for the language setting. + +People who want something other than the default also use three steps: +1. configure -ask +2. make +3. make install +but have to answer a lot of questions during configure. + +In somewhat greater detail: + +1. Run configure. This will grope around your system a bit and then + ask you a number of questions. It will create a Makefile from the + file Makefile.in. You may have to do some fine tuning to get things + to work exactly right on your system. If you do, I'd like to know + what changes you had to make to get things working. + + Man uses groff (nroff, troff) to format man pages. If you don't + have *roff, then you can only use preformatted man pages. + + You can make man suid to some uid, say man, where man is the owner + of the directories (like /usr/man/cat*) for formatted man pages. + That way man can write formatted pages there, even when the directory + does not have universal write permission. However, it is fairly easy + to spoof man, so really this setup is not very different from the one + where /usr/man/cat* has universal write permission. + Never make man suid bin or daemon or root! + + Of course it is not necessary at all to cache formatted man pages. + Formatting usually takes less than a second, and by not having + preformatted pages one avoids problems with window width, integrity, etc. + +2. Look at the man.conf file. This determines the programs and extensions + used in compressing and uncompressing cat pages. It also determines + the system-wide mappings from bin directories to man page directories. + It was constructed by configure; you might want to make some changes. + +3. Do a `make all', try it out, and then if you're happy with that, do + a `make install'. You don't need to be root to use this set of + programs. + [Note: if you want to try man with the new, not yet installed, man.conf + file, use "man -C ./man.conf ...".] + +4. Install the whatis database(s) by running makewhatis. If you want + to keep things absolutely current, you'll need to run this whenever + you add new man pages. You might want to add an entry in your + crontab. |