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<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Module-Init-Tools</title>
+ <para>To avoid a problem with regenerating the man pages when not needed,
+ first rewrite a file that just points to another man page:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">echo '.so man5/modprobe.conf.5' > modprobe.d.5</userinput></screen>
+
<para>The testsuite of this package is geared towards the needs of its
Maintainer. The command <command>make check</command> builds a specially
wrapped version of modprobe which is useless for normal operation. To run