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# Installing Man

## Installation of Man

Before Man is installed, the man patch file needs to be unpacked.

> `patch -Np1 -i ../man-1.5i.patch &&`
> `./configure -default &&`
> `make &&`
> `make install`

You may want to take a look at the man hint which deals with formatting and compression issues for man pages.

## Contents

The Man package contains the man, apropos whatis and makewhatis programs.

## Description

### man

man formats and displays the on-line manual pages.

### apropos

apropos searches a set of database files containing short descriptions of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard output.

### whatis

whatis searches a set of database files containing short descriptions of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard output. Only complete word matches are displayed.

### makewhatis

makewhatis reads all the manual pages contained in given sections of manpath or the pre-formatted pages contained in the given sections of catpath. For each page, it writes a line in the whatis database; each line consists of the name of the page and a short description, separated by a dash. The description is extracted using the content of the NAME section of the manual page.

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