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# Installing Texinfo-4.6

    Approximate build time:  0.2 SBU
    Required disk space:     16 MB

Official download location for Texinfo (4.6):
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/

For its installation Texinfo depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed.

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## Installation of Texinfo

Prepare Texinfo for compilation:

    ./configure --prefix=/tools

Compile the programs:

    make

As discussed earlier, we don't recommend running the test suites for the temporary tools here in this chapter. If you still want to run the Texinfo test suite anyway, the following command will do so:

    make check

Then install them and their documentation:

    make install

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The details on this package are found in the Section called Contents of Texinfo in Chapter 6.

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