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<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Flex</title>
+ <para>First, fix a problem with the latest version:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&flex-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
+
<para>The build procedure assumes the <application>help2man</application>
program is available to create a man page from the executable --help option.
This is not present, so we use an environment variable to skip this process.