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1 | This package contains the Linux man pages for all chapters |
2 | except 1, 6 and 8. Some more information is given in the | |
3 | `Announce' file. | |
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5 | Install by copying to your favourite location. | |
07060a12 | 6 | "make install" will just copy them to /usr/share/man/man[1-8]. |
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7 | "make" will move the pages from this package that are older than |
8 | the already installed ones to a subdirectory `not_installed', | |
9 | then remove old versions (compressed or not), | |
07060a12 | 10 | compress the pages, and copy them to /usr/share/man/man[1-8]. |
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13 | Note that you may have to remove preformatted pages. | |
14 | ||
15 | Note that sometimes these pages are duplicates of pages | |
16 | also distributed in other packages. This has been reported | |
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17 | about dlclose.3, dlerror.3, dlopen.3, dlsym.3 (found in ld.so), |
18 | about resolver.3, resolv.conf.5 (found in bind-utils), | |
19 | and about passwd.5, and mailaddr.7. Be careful not to | |
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20 | overwrite more up-to-date versions. |
21 | Reports on further duplicates are welcome. | |
22 | Formerly present and now removed duplicates: | |
23 | *_module.2, get_kernel_syms.2 (found in modutils-2.1.*), | |
24 | exports.5 (found in nfs-server-2.2*), | |
29efd194 | 25 | fstab.5, nfs.5 (found in util-linux-2.12*), |
ddeb4bf8 | 26 | lilo.8, lilo.conf.5 (found in lilo-21.6*). |
8869fd76 | 27 | |
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28 | Note that the pages that come with GNU fileutils are really |
29 | help texts (indeed, are generated automatically from help texts), | |
30 | and worse than worthless. Without them people would have good | |
31 | detailed man pages, such as those found here in man1. | |
32 | As it is, many distributions install these "man pages", | |
33 | to the detriment of their users. | |
34 | ||
8869fd76 | 35 | Copyrights: These man pages come under various copyrights. |
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36 | For the POSIX pages, see the file POSIX-COPYRIGHT. |
37 | All other pages are freely distributable when the nroff source is included. | |
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29efd194 | 39 | Send corrections and additions to mtk-manpages@gmx.net |
df26b024 | 40 | (man.7 has some info on the macros to use). |