6.17. Installing Groff-1.17.2

Estimated build time:           2 minutes
Estimated required disk space:  16 MB

6.17.1. Installation of Groff

Install Groff by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install &&
cd /usr/bin &&
ln -s soelim zsoelim &&
ln -s eqn geqn &&
ln -s tbl gtbl

6.17.2. Command explanations

ln -s ...: These symlinks are needed for some xman and other groff/man document programs to work properly.

6.17.3. Contents of groff-1.17.2

6.17.3.2. Descriptions

6.17.4. Dependencies

Groff-1.17.2 needs the following to be installed:


bash: sh
binutils: ar, as, ld, ranlib
bison: bison
diffutils: cmp
fileutils: chmod, cp, install, ln, ls, mkdir, mv, rm, touch
gcc: cc1, cc1plus, collect2, cpp0, g++, gcc
grep: egrep, grep
make: make
gawk: awk
sed: sed
sh-utils: basename, date, echo, expr, hostname, uname
textutils: cat, tr