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# Texinfo

For installation instructions see the Section called Installing Texinfo-4.6 in Chapter 6.

## Official Download Location

Texinfo (4.6):
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/

## Contents of Texinfo

(Last checked against version 4.6.)

The Texinfo package contains programs used for reading, writing and converting Info documents, which provide system documentation.

Installed programs: info, infokey, install-info, makeinfo, texi2dvi and texindex

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## Short descriptions

info is used to read Info documents. Info documents are a bit like man pages, but often go much deeper than just explaining all the flags. Compare for example man tar and info tar.

infokey compiles a source file containing Info customizations into a binary format.

install-info is used to install Info files. It updates entries in the Info index file.

makeinfo translates the given Texinfo source documents into various other formats: Info files, plain text, or HTML.

texi2dvi is used to format the given Texinfo document into a device-independent file that can be printed.

texindex is used to sort Texinfo index files.

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## Texinfo Installation Dependencies

(Last checked against version 4.0.)

Bash: sh
Binutils: ar, as, ld, ranlib
Coreutils: basename, cat, chmod, echo, expr, hostname, install, ln, ls,
mkdir, mv, rm, sleep, tr
Diffutils: cmp
GCC: cc1, collect2, cpp, gcc
Grep: egrep, fgrep, grep
Make: make
Sed: sed
Texinfo: makeinfo

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