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Update Man-DB to 2.7.6.1 and update install commmands.

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[82a4190]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-man-db" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="man-db.html"?>
10
11 <title>Man-DB-&man-db-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db">
14 <primary sortas="a-Man-DB">Man-DB</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>The Man-DB package contains programs for finding and viewing man
21 pages.</para>
22
23 </sect2>
24
25 <sect2 role="installation">
26 <title>Installation of Man-DB</title>
27
28 <para os="a">Prepare Man-DB for compilation:</para>
29
[7cd7f99]30<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure \
31 --prefix=/usr \
32 --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
33 --docdir=/usr/share/doc/man-db-&man-db-version; \
34 --sysconfdir=/etc \
35 --disable-setuid \
[f745574]36 --enable-cache-owner=bin \
[7cd7f99]37 --with-browser=/usr/bin/lynx \
38 --with-vgrind=/usr/bin/vgrind \
39 --with-grap=/usr/bin/grap</userinput></screen>
[82a4190]40
41 <variablelist os="c">
42 <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
43
44 <varlistentry>
45 <term><parameter>--disable-setuid</parameter></term>
46 <listitem>
47 <para>This disables making the <command>man</command> program setuid
48 to user <systemitem class="username">man</systemitem>.</para>
49 </listitem>
50 </varlistentry>
51
52 <varlistentry>
53 <term><parameter>--with-...</parameter></term>
54 <listitem>
55 <para>These three parameters are used to set some default programs.
56 <command>lynx</command> is a text-based web browser (see
[831e787]57 CBLFS for installation instructions), <command>vgrind</command>
[82a4190]58 converts program sources to Groff input, and <command>grap</command>
59 is useful for typesetting graphs in Groff documents. The
60 <command>vgrind</command> and <command>grap</command> programs are
61 not normally needed for viewing manual pages. They are not part of
[831e787]62 CLFS or CBLFS, but you should be able to install them yourself after
63 finishing CLFS if you wish to do so.</para>
[82a4190]64 </listitem>
65 </varlistentry>
66
67 </variablelist>
68
69 <para os="d">Compile the package:</para>
70
71<screen os="e"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
72
73 <para os="f">To test the results, issue:</para>
74
75<screen os="g"><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
76
77 <para os="h">Install the package:</para>
78
79<screen os="i"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
80
[afd5ee2f]81 <para os="j">Edit the installed tmpfile as we have no <systemitem class="username">man</systemitem> user:</para>
82
[f745574]83<screen os="k"><userinput>sed -i "s:man man:root root:g" /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/man-db.conf</userinput></screen>
[82a4190]84 </sect2>
85
[d50634a]86 <sect2 id="encoding-man-db" role="encoding">
[3c9d060]87 <title>Non-English Manual Pages in CLFS</title>
[d50634a]88
89 <para>The following table shows the character set that Man-DB assumes
90 manual pages installed under
91 <filename class="directory">/usr/share/man/&lt;ll&gt;</filename> will be
92 encoded with. In addition to this, Man-DB correctly determines if manual
93 pages installed in that directory are UTF-8 encoded.</para>
94
95 <!-- Origin: man-db-2.5.9/lib/encodings.c -->
96 <table>
97<title>Expected character encoding of legacy 8-bit manual pages</title>
98 <?dbfo table-width="6in" ?>
99
100 <tgroup cols="4">
101
102 <colspec colnum="1" colwidth="1.5in"/>
103 <colspec colnum="2" colwidth="1in"/>
104 <colspec colnum="3" colwidth="2.5in"/>
105 <colspec colnum="4" colwidth="1in"/>
106
107 <thead>
108 <row>
109 <entry>Language (code)</entry>
110 <entry>Encoding</entry>
111 <entry>Language (code)</entry>
112 <entry>Encoding</entry>
113 </row>
114 </thead>
115
116 <tbody>
117 <row>
118 <entry>Danish (da)</entry>
119 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
120 <entry>Croatian (hr)</entry>
121 <entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
122 </row>
123 <row>
124 <entry>German (de)</entry>
125 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
126 <entry>Hungarian (hu)</entry>
127 <entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
128 </row>
129 <row>
130 <entry>English (en)</entry>
131 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
132 <entry>Japanese (ja)</entry>
133 <entry>EUC-JP</entry>
134 </row>
135 <row>
136 <entry>Spanish (es)</entry>
137 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
138 <entry>Korean (ko)</entry>
139 <entry>EUC-KR</entry>
140 </row>
141 <row>
142 <entry>Estonian (et)</entry>
143 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
144 <entry>Lithuanian (lt)</entry>
145 <entry>ISO-8859-13</entry>
146 </row>
147 <row>
148 <entry>Finnish (fi)</entry>
149 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
150 <entry>Latvian (lv)</entry>
151 <entry>ISO-8859-13</entry>
152 </row>
153 <row>
154 <entry>French (fr)</entry>
155 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
156 <entry>Macedonian (mk)</entry>
157 <entry>ISO-8859-5</entry>
158 </row>
159 <row>
160 <entry>Irish (ga)</entry>
161 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
162 <entry>Polish (pl)</entry>
163 <entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
164 </row>
165 <row>
166 <entry>Galician (gl)</entry>
167 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
168 <entry>Romanian (ro)</entry>
169 <entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
170 </row>
171 <row>
172 <entry>Indonesian (id)</entry>
173 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
174 <entry>Russian (ru)</entry>
175 <entry>KOI8-R</entry>
176 </row>
177 <row>
178 <entry>Icelandic (is)</entry>
179 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
180 <entry>Slovak (sk)</entry>
181 <entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
182 </row>
183 <row>
184 <entry>Italian (it)</entry>
185 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
186 <entry>Slovenian (sl)</entry>
187 <entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
188 </row>
189 <row>
190 <entry>Norwegian Bokmal (nb)</entry>
191 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
192 <entry>Serbian Latin (sr@latin)</entry>
193 <entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
194 </row>
195 <row>
196 <entry>Dutch (nl)</entry>
197 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
198 <entry>Serbian (sr)</entry>
199 <entry>ISO-8859-5</entry>
200 </row>
201 <row>
202 <entry>Norwegian Nynorsk (nn)</entry>
203 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
204 <entry>Turkish (tr)</entry>
205 <entry>ISO-8859-9</entry>
206 </row>
207 <row>
208 <entry>Norwegian (no)</entry>
209 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
210 <entry>Ukrainian (uk)</entry>
211 <entry>KOI8-U</entry>
212 </row>
213 <row>
214 <entry>Portuguese (pt)</entry>
215 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
216 <entry>Vietnamese (vi)</entry>
217 <entry>TCVN5712-1</entry>
218 </row>
219 <row>
220 <entry>Swedish (sv)</entry>
221 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
222 <entry>Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)</entry>
223 <entry>GBK</entry>
224 </row>
225 <row>
226 <entry>Belarusian (be)</entry>
227 <entry>CP1251</entry>
228 <entry>Simplified Chinese, Singapore (zh_SG)</entry>
229 <entry>GBK</entry>
230 </row>
231 <row>
232 <entry>Bulgarian (bg)</entry>
233 <entry>CP1251</entry>
234 <entry>Traditional Chinese, Hong Kong (zh_HK)</entry>
235 <entry>BIG5HKSCS</entry>
236 </row>
237 <row>
238 <entry>Czech (cs)</entry>
239 <entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
240 <entry>Traditional Chinese (zh_TW)</entry>
241 <entry>BIG5</entry>
242 </row>
243 <row>
244 <entry>Greek (el)</entry>
245 <entry>ISO-8859-7</entry>
246 <entry></entry>
247 <entry></entry>
248 </row>
249
250 </tbody>
251
252 </tgroup>
253
254 </table>
255
256 <note>
257 <para>Manual pages in languages not in the list are not supported.</para>
258 </note>
259
260 </sect2>
261
[82a4190]262 <sect2 id="contents-man-db" role="content">
263 <title>Contents of Man-DB</title>
264
265 <segmentedlist>
266 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
267 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
268 <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
269
270 <seglistitem>
271 <seg>accessdb, apropos (link to whatis), catman, lexgrog, man, mandb,
[2b9d835]272 manpath, whatis, zsoelim</seg>
[82a4190]273 <seg>libman.so, libmandb.so</seg>
[9ac97c9]274 <seg>/usr/lib/man-db, /usr/share/doc/man-db-&man-db-version;</seg>
[82a4190]275 </seglistitem>
276 </segmentedlist>
277
278 <variablelist>
279 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
280 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
281 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
282
283 <varlistentry id="accessdb">
284 <term><command>accessdb</command></term>
285 <listitem>
286 <para>Dumps the <command>whatis</command> database contents in
287 human-readable form</para>
288 <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db accessdb">
289 <primary sortas="b-accessdb">accessdb</primary>
290 </indexterm>
291 </listitem>
292 </varlistentry>
293
[200f1853]294 <varlistentry id="apropos">
[82a4190]295 <term><command>apropos</command></term>
296 <listitem>
297 <para>Searches the <command>whatis</command> database and displays
298 the short descriptions of system commands that contain a given
299 string</para>
300 <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db apropos">
301 <primary sortas="b-apropos">apropos</primary>
302 </indexterm>
303 </listitem>
304 </varlistentry>
305
306 <varlistentry id="catman">
307 <term><command>catman</command></term>
308 <listitem>
309 <para>Creates or updates the pre-formatted manual pages</para>
310 <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db catman">
311 <primary sortas="b-catman">catman</primary>
312 </indexterm>
313 </listitem>
314 </varlistentry>
315
316 <varlistentry id="lexgrog">
317 <term><command>lexgrog</command></term>
318 <listitem>
319 <para>Displays one-line summary information about a given manual
320 page</para>
321 <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db lexgrog">
322 <primary sortas="b-lexgrog">lexgrog</primary>
323 </indexterm>
324 </listitem>
325 </varlistentry>
326
327 <varlistentry id="man">
328 <term><command>man</command></term>
329 <listitem>
330 <para>Formats and displays the requested manual page</para>
331 <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db man">
332 <primary sortas="b-man">man</primary>
333 </indexterm>
334 </listitem>
335 </varlistentry>
336
337 <varlistentry id="mandb">
338 <term><command>mandb</command></term>
339 <listitem>
340 <para>Creates or updates the <command>whatis</command> database</para>
341 <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db mandb">
342 <primary sortas="b-mandb">mandb</primary>
343 </indexterm>
344 </listitem>
345 </varlistentry>
346
347 <varlistentry id="manpath">
348 <term><command>manpath</command></term>
349 <listitem>
350 <para>Displays the contents of $MANPATH or (if $MANPATH is not set)
351 a suitable search path based on the settings in man.conf and the
352 user's environment</para>
353 <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db manpath">
354 <primary sortas="b-manpath">manpath</primary>
355 </indexterm>
356 </listitem>
357 </varlistentry>
358
359 <varlistentry id="whatis">
360 <term><command>whatis</command></term>
361 <listitem>
362 <para>Searches the <command>whatis</command> database and displays
363 the short descriptions of system commands that contain the given
364 keyword as a separate word</para>
365 <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db whatis">
366 <primary sortas="b-whatis">whatis</primary>
367 </indexterm>
368 </listitem>
369 </varlistentry>
370
371 <varlistentry id="zsoelim">
372 <term><command>zsoelim</command></term>
373 <listitem>
374 <para>Reads files and replaces lines of the form <emphasis>.so
375 file</emphasis> by the contents of the mentioned
376 <emphasis>file</emphasis></para>
377 <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db zsoelim">
378 <primary sortas="b-zsoelim">zsoelim</primary>
379 </indexterm>
380 </listitem>
[200f1853]381 </varlistentry>
[82a4190]382
383 <varlistentry id="libman">
384 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libman</filename></term>
385 <listitem>
386 <para>Contains run-time support for <command>man</command></para>
387 <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db libman">
388 <primary sortas="c-libman">libman</primary>
389 </indexterm>
390 </listitem>
391 </varlistentry>
392
393 <varlistentry id="libmandb">
394 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmandb</filename></term>
395 <listitem>
396 <para>Contains run-time support for <command>man</command></para>
397 <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db libmandb">
398 <primary sortas="c-libmandb">libmandb</primary>
399 </indexterm>
400 </listitem>
401 </varlistentry>
402
403 </variablelist>
404
405 </sect2>
406
407</sect1>
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