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1This package contains Linux man pages for sections
22, 3, 4, 5, and 7. Some more information is given in the
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3`Announce' file.
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5Install by copying to your favourite location.
6"make install" will just copy them to /usr/share/man/man[1-8].
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7To install to a path different from /usr use
8"make install prefix=/install/path".
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9"make" will move the pages from this package that are older than
10the already installed ones to a subdirectory `not_installed',
11then remove old versions (compressed or not),
12compress the pages, and copy them to /usr/share/man/man[1-8].
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15Note that you may have to remove preformatted pages.
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17Note that sometimes these pages are duplicates of pages
18also distributed in other packages. This has been reported
19about dlclose.3, dlerror.3, dlopen.3, dlsym.3 (found in ld.so),
20about resolver.3, resolv.conf.5 (found in bind-utils),
21and about passwd.5, and mailaddr.7. Be careful not to
22overwrite more up-to-date versions.
23Reports on further duplicates are welcome.
24Formerly present and now removed duplicates:
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25 exports.5 (found in nfs-server-2.2*),
26 fstab.5, nfs.5 (found in util-linux-2.12*),
27 lilo.8, lilo.conf.5 (found in lilo-21.6*).
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fea681da 29Copyrights: These man pages come under various copyrights.
0e9f7464 30All pages are freely distributable when the nroff source is included.
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0e9f7464 32If you have corrections and additions to suggest, see
ca0d872f 33http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/contributing.html