6.18. Installing Man-1.5j

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

6.18.1. Installation of Man

Run the following commands to install man:

./configure -default &&
make &&
make install &&
mv /usr/share/misc/man.conf /etc

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.

6.18.2. Contents of man-1.5j

6.18.3. Dependencies

Man-1.5i2 needs the following to be installed:


bash: sh
binutils: as, ld
fileutils: chmod, cp, install, mkdir, rm
gcc: c11, collect2, cpp0, gcc
grep: grep
make: make
gawk: awk
sed: sed
sh-utils: echo
textutils: cat