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1 | This package contains Linux man pages for sections 1 through 8. Some |
| 2 | more information is given in the 'man-pages-x.y.Announce' file. | |
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4 | Installing and uninstalling |
| 5 | =========================== | |
| 6 | "make install" will copy these man pages to /usr/share/man/man[1-8]. | |
| 7 | ||
| 8 | To install to a path different from /usr, use | |
| 780b72d4 | 9 | "make install prefix=/install/path". |
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| 11 | "make remove" or "make uninstall" will remove any man page in this | |
| 12 | distribution from its destination. Use with caution, and remember to | |
| 13 | use "prefix" if desired, as with the "install" target. | |
| 14 | ||
| 15 | "make" or "make all" will perform "make uninstall" followed by "make | |
| 16 | install". | |
| 17 | ||
| 18 | Man page overlap and duplication | |
| 19 | ================================ | |
| 20 | Note that sometimes these pages are duplicates of pages also distributed | |
| 21 | in other packages. This has been reported about: | |
| 22 | ||
| 23 | man page also found in | |
| 24 | ------------------------------------- | |
| 25 | resolver.3 bind-utils, bind9utils | |
| 26 | resolv.conf.5 " | |
| 27 | passwd.5 shadow, passwd | |
| 28 | mailaddr.7 ? | |
| 29 | ||
| 30 | Copyrights | |
| 31 | ========== | |
| 32 | See the 'man-pages-x.y.Announce' file. | |
| 33 | ||
| 34 | Homepage | |
| 35 | ======== | |
| 36 | For much more about the Linux man-pages project, see | |
| 3cd6e494 | 37 | http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/index.html. |