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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
[174d61e]30<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
[82a4190]31 --docdir=/usr/share/doc/man-db-&man-db-version; --sysconfdir=/etc \
32 --disable-setuid --with-browser=/usr/bin/lynx \
[43196c5]33 --with-vgrind=/usr/bin/vgrind --with-grap=/usr/bin/grap</userinput></screen>
[82a4190]34
35 <variablelist os="c">
36 <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
37
38 <varlistentry>
39 <term><parameter>--disable-setuid</parameter></term>
40 <listitem>
41 <para>This disables making the <command>man</command> program setuid
42 to user <systemitem class="username">man</systemitem>.</para>
43 </listitem>
44 </varlistentry>
45
46 <varlistentry>
47 <term><parameter>--with-...</parameter></term>
48 <listitem>
49 <para>These three parameters are used to set some default programs.
50 <command>lynx</command> is a text-based web browser (see
[831e787]51 CBLFS for installation instructions), <command>vgrind</command>
[82a4190]52 converts program sources to Groff input, and <command>grap</command>
53 is useful for typesetting graphs in Groff documents. The
54 <command>vgrind</command> and <command>grap</command> programs are
55 not normally needed for viewing manual pages. They are not part of
[831e787]56 CLFS or CBLFS, but you should be able to install them yourself after
57 finishing CLFS if you wish to do so.</para>
[82a4190]58 </listitem>
59 </varlistentry>
60
61 </variablelist>
62
63 <para os="d">Compile the package:</para>
64
65<screen os="e"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
66
67 <para os="f">To test the results, issue:</para>
68
69<screen os="g"><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
70
71 <para os="h">Install the package:</para>
72
73<screen os="i"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
74
75 </sect2>
76
[d50634a]77 <sect2 id="encoding-man-db" role="encoding">
[f363efb]78 <title>Non-English Manual Pages in CLFS</title>
[d50634a]79
80 <para>The following table shows the character set that Man-DB assumes
81 manual pages installed under
82 <filename class="directory">/usr/share/man/&lt;ll&gt;</filename> will be
83 encoded with. In addition to this, Man-DB correctly determines if manual
84 pages installed in that directory are UTF-8 encoded.</para>
85
86 <!-- Origin: man-db-2.5.9/lib/encodings.c -->
87 <table>
88<title>Expected character encoding of legacy 8-bit manual pages</title>
89 <?dbfo table-width="6in" ?>
90
91 <tgroup cols="4">
92
93 <colspec colnum="1" colwidth="1.5in"/>
94 <colspec colnum="2" colwidth="1in"/>
95 <colspec colnum="3" colwidth="2.5in"/>
96 <colspec colnum="4" colwidth="1in"/>
97
98 <thead>
99 <row>
100 <entry>Language (code)</entry>
101 <entry>Encoding</entry>
102 <entry>Language (code)</entry>
103 <entry>Encoding</entry>
104 </row>
105 </thead>
106
107 <tbody>
108 <row>
109 <entry>Danish (da)</entry>
110 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
111 <entry>Croatian (hr)</entry>
112 <entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
113 </row>
114 <row>
115 <entry>German (de)</entry>
116 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
117 <entry>Hungarian (hu)</entry>
118 <entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
119 </row>
120 <row>
121 <entry>English (en)</entry>
122 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
123 <entry>Japanese (ja)</entry>
124 <entry>EUC-JP</entry>
125 </row>
126 <row>
127 <entry>Spanish (es)</entry>
128 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
129 <entry>Korean (ko)</entry>
130 <entry>EUC-KR</entry>
131 </row>
132 <row>
133 <entry>Estonian (et)</entry>
134 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
135 <entry>Lithuanian (lt)</entry>
136 <entry>ISO-8859-13</entry>
137 </row>
138 <row>
139 <entry>Finnish (fi)</entry>
140 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
141 <entry>Latvian (lv)</entry>
142 <entry>ISO-8859-13</entry>
143 </row>
144 <row>
145 <entry>French (fr)</entry>
146 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
147 <entry>Macedonian (mk)</entry>
148 <entry>ISO-8859-5</entry>
149 </row>
150 <row>
151 <entry>Irish (ga)</entry>
152 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
153 <entry>Polish (pl)</entry>
154 <entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
155 </row>
156 <row>
157 <entry>Galician (gl)</entry>
158 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
159 <entry>Romanian (ro)</entry>
160 <entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
161 </row>
162 <row>
163 <entry>Indonesian (id)</entry>
164 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
165 <entry>Russian (ru)</entry>
166 <entry>KOI8-R</entry>
167 </row>
168 <row>
169 <entry>Icelandic (is)</entry>
170 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
171 <entry>Slovak (sk)</entry>
172 <entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
173 </row>
174 <row>
175 <entry>Italian (it)</entry>
176 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
177 <entry>Slovenian (sl)</entry>
178 <entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
179 </row>
180 <row>
181 <entry>Norwegian Bokmal (nb)</entry>
182 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
183 <entry>Serbian Latin (sr@latin)</entry>
184 <entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
185 </row>
186 <row>
187 <entry>Dutch (nl)</entry>
188 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
189 <entry>Serbian (sr)</entry>
190 <entry>ISO-8859-5</entry>
191 </row>
192 <row>
193 <entry>Norwegian Nynorsk (nn)</entry>
194 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
195 <entry>Turkish (tr)</entry>
196 <entry>ISO-8859-9</entry>
197 </row>
198 <row>
199 <entry>Norwegian (no)</entry>
200 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
201 <entry>Ukrainian (uk)</entry>
202 <entry>KOI8-U</entry>
203 </row>
204 <row>
205 <entry>Portuguese (pt)</entry>
206 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
207 <entry>Vietnamese (vi)</entry>
208 <entry>TCVN5712-1</entry>
209 </row>
210 <row>
211 <entry>Swedish (sv)</entry>
212 <entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
213 <entry>Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)</entry>
214 <entry>GBK</entry>
215 </row>
216 <row>
217 <entry>Belarusian (be)</entry>
218 <entry>CP1251</entry>
219 <entry>Simplified Chinese, Singapore (zh_SG)</entry>
220 <entry>GBK</entry>
221 </row>
222 <row>
223 <entry>Bulgarian (bg)</entry>
224 <entry>CP1251</entry>
225 <entry>Traditional Chinese, Hong Kong (zh_HK)</entry>
226 <entry>BIG5HKSCS</entry>
227 </row>
228 <row>
229 <entry>Czech (cs)</entry>
230 <entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
231 <entry>Traditional Chinese (zh_TW)</entry>
232 <entry>BIG5</entry>
233 </row>
234 <row>
235 <entry>Greek (el)</entry>
236 <entry>ISO-8859-7</entry>
237 <entry></entry>
238 <entry></entry>
239 </row>
240
241 </tbody>
242
243 </tgroup>
244
245 </table>
246
247 <note>
248 <para>Manual pages in languages not in the list are not supported.</para>
249 </note>
250
251 </sect2>
252
[82a4190]253 <sect2 id="contents-man-db" role="content">
254 <title>Contents of Man-DB</title>
255
256 <segmentedlist>
257 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
258 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
259 <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
260
261 <seglistitem>
262 <seg>accessdb, apropos (link to whatis), catman, lexgrog, man, mandb,
[2b9d835]263 manpath, whatis, zsoelim</seg>
[82a4190]264 <seg>libman.so, libmandb.so</seg>
[9ac97c9]265 <seg>/usr/lib/man-db, /usr/share/doc/man-db-&man-db-version;</seg>
[82a4190]266 </seglistitem>
267 </segmentedlist>
268
269 <variablelist>
270 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
271 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
272 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
273
274 <varlistentry id="accessdb">
275 <term><command>accessdb</command></term>
276 <listitem>
277 <para>Dumps the <command>whatis</command> database contents in
278 human-readable form</para>
279 <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db accessdb">
280 <primary sortas="b-accessdb">accessdb</primary>
281 </indexterm>
282 </listitem>
283 </varlistentry>
284
[200f1853]285 <varlistentry id="apropos">
[82a4190]286 <term><command>apropos</command></term>
287 <listitem>
288 <para>Searches the <command>whatis</command> database and displays
289 the short descriptions of system commands that contain a given
290 string</para>
291 <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db apropos">
292 <primary sortas="b-apropos">apropos</primary>
293 </indexterm>
294 </listitem>
295 </varlistentry>
296
297 <varlistentry id="catman">
298 <term><command>catman</command></term>
299 <listitem>
300 <para>Creates or updates the pre-formatted manual pages</para>
301 <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db catman">
302 <primary sortas="b-catman">catman</primary>
303 </indexterm>
304 </listitem>
305 </varlistentry>
306
307 <varlistentry id="lexgrog">
308 <term><command>lexgrog</command></term>
309 <listitem>
310 <para>Displays one-line summary information about a given manual
311 page</para>
312 <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db lexgrog">
313 <primary sortas="b-lexgrog">lexgrog</primary>
314 </indexterm>
315 </listitem>
316 </varlistentry>
317
318 <varlistentry id="man">
319 <term><command>man</command></term>
320 <listitem>
321 <para>Formats and displays the requested manual page</para>
322 <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db man">
323 <primary sortas="b-man">man</primary>
324 </indexterm>
325 </listitem>
326 </varlistentry>
327
328 <varlistentry id="mandb">
329 <term><command>mandb</command></term>
330 <listitem>
331 <para>Creates or updates the <command>whatis</command> database</para>
332 <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db mandb">
333 <primary sortas="b-mandb">mandb</primary>
334 </indexterm>
335 </listitem>
336 </varlistentry>
337
338 <varlistentry id="manpath">
339 <term><command>manpath</command></term>
340 <listitem>
341 <para>Displays the contents of $MANPATH or (if $MANPATH is not set)
342 a suitable search path based on the settings in man.conf and the
343 user's environment</para>
344 <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db manpath">
345 <primary sortas="b-manpath">manpath</primary>
346 </indexterm>
347 </listitem>
348 </varlistentry>
349
350 <varlistentry id="whatis">
351 <term><command>whatis</command></term>
352 <listitem>
353 <para>Searches the <command>whatis</command> database and displays
354 the short descriptions of system commands that contain the given
355 keyword as a separate word</para>
356 <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db whatis">
357 <primary sortas="b-whatis">whatis</primary>
358 </indexterm>
359 </listitem>
360 </varlistentry>
361
362 <varlistentry id="zsoelim">
363 <term><command>zsoelim</command></term>
364 <listitem>
365 <para>Reads files and replaces lines of the form <emphasis>.so
366 file</emphasis> by the contents of the mentioned
367 <emphasis>file</emphasis></para>
368 <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db zsoelim">
369 <primary sortas="b-zsoelim">zsoelim</primary>
370 </indexterm>
371 </listitem>
[200f1853]372 </varlistentry>
[82a4190]373
374 <varlistentry id="libman">
375 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libman</filename></term>
376 <listitem>
377 <para>Contains run-time support for <command>man</command></para>
378 <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db libman">
379 <primary sortas="c-libman">libman</primary>
380 </indexterm>
381 </listitem>
382 </varlistentry>
383
384 <varlistentry id="libmandb">
385 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmandb</filename></term>
386 <listitem>
387 <para>Contains run-time support for <command>man</command></para>
388 <indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db libmandb">
389 <primary sortas="c-libmandb">libmandb</primary>
390 </indexterm>
391 </listitem>
392 </varlistentry>
393
394 </variablelist>
395
396 </sect2>
397
398</sect1>
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