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