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]>
<sect1 id="ch-system-man-db" role="wrap">
<?dbhtml filename="man-db.html"?>
<sect1info condition="script">
<productname>man-db</productname>
<productnumber>&man-db-version;</productnumber>
<address>&man-db-url;</address>
</sect1info>
<title>Man-DB-&man-db-version;</title>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db">
<primary sortas="a-Man-DB">Man-DB</primary>
</indexterm>
<sect2 role="package">
<title/>
<para>The Man-DB package contains programs for finding and viewing man
pages.</para>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
<seg>&man-db-ch6-sbu;</seg>
<seg>&man-db-ch6-du;</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Man-DB</title>
<para>Apply a patch to fix a problem with the testsuite, which doesn't
expect <command>col</command> to be UTF-8 aware, which Util-Linux-NG's
version is:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&man-db-testsuite-patch;</userinput></screen>
<para>Prepare Man-DB for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
--sysconfdir=/etc --disable-setuid \
--with-browser=/usr/bin/lynx --with-col=/usr/bin/col \
--with-vgrind=/usr/bin/vgrind --with-grap=/usr/bin/grap</userinput></screen>
<variablelist>
<title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>--disable-setuid</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>This disables making the <command>man</command> program setuid
to user <systemitem class="username">man</systemitem>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>--with-...</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>These four parameters are used to set some default programs.
The <command>col</command> program is a part of the Util-linux-ng
package, <command>lynx</command> is a text-based web browser (see
BLFS for installation instructions), <command>vgrind</command>
converts program sources to Groff input, and <command>grap</command>
is useful for typesetting graphs in Groff documents. The
<command>vgrind</command> and <command>grap</command> programs are
not normally needed for viewing manual pages. They are not part of
LFS or BLFS, but you should be able to install them yourself after
finishing LFS if you wish to do so.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>Compile the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
<para>To test the results, issue:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
<para>Install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Non-English Manual Pages in LFS</title>
<para>The following table shows the character set that Man-DB assumes
manual pages installed under
<filename class="directory">/usr/share/man/<ll></filename> will be
encoded with. In addition to this, Man-DB correctly determines if manual
pages installed in that directory are UTF-8 encoded.</para>
<!-- Origin: man-db-2.5.5/src/encodings.c -->
<table>
<title>Expected character encoding of legacy 8-bit manual pages</title>
<?dbfo table-width="6in" ?>
<tgroup cols="4">
<colspec colnum="1" colwidth="1.5in"/>
<colspec colnum="2" colwidth="1in"/>
<colspec colnum="3" colwidth="2.5in"/>
<colspec colnum="4" colwidth="1in"/>
<thead>
<row>
<entry>Language (code)</entry>
<entry>Encoding</entry>
<entry>Language (code)</entry>
<entry>Encoding</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>Danish (da)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
<entry>Croatian (hr)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>German (de)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
<entry>Hungarian (hu)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>English (en)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
<entry>Japanese (ja)</entry>
<entry>EUC-JP</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Spanish (es)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
<entry>Korean (ko)</entry>
<entry>EUC-KR</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Estonian (et)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
<entry>Lithuanian (lt)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-13</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Finnish (fi)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
<entry>Latvian (lv)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-13</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>French (fr)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
<entry>Macedonian (mk)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-5</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Irish (ga)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
<entry>Polish (pl)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Galician (gl)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
<entry>Romanian (ro)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Indonesian (id)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
<entry>Russian (ru)</entry>
<entry>KOI8-R</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Icelandic (is)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
<entry>Slovak (sk)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Italian (it)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
<entry>Slovenian (sl)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Norwegian Bokmal (nb)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
<entry>Serbian Latin (sr@latin)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Dutch (nl)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
<entry>Serbian (sr)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-5</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Norwegian Nynorsk (nn)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
<entry>Turkish (tr)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-9</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Norwegian (no)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
<entry>Ukrainian (uk)</entry>
<entry>KOI8-U</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Portuguese (pt)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
<entry>Vietnamese (vi)</entry>
<entry>TCVN5712-1</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Swedish (sv)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-1</entry>
<entry>Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)</entry>
<entry>GBK</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Belarusian (be)</entry>
<entry>CP1251</entry>
<entry>Simplified Chinese, Singapore (zh_SG)</entry>
<entry>GBK</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Bulgarian (bg)</entry>
<entry>CP1251</entry>
<entry>Traditional Chinese, Hong Kong (zh_HK)</entry>
<entry>BIG5HKSCS</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Czech (cs)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-2</entry>
<entry>Traditional Chinese (zh_TW)</entry>
<entry>BIG5</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Greek (el)</entry>
<entry>ISO-8859-7</entry>
<entry></entry>
<entry></entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
<note>
<para>Manual pages in languages not in the list are not supported.</para>
</note>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="contents-man-db" role="content">
<title>Contents of Man-DB</title>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
<seg>accessdb, apropos (link to whatis), catman, convert-mans, lexgrog, man, mandb,
manpath, whatis, and zsoelim</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
<variablelist>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
<?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
<varlistentry id="accessdb">
<term><command>accessdb</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Dumps the <command>whatis</command> database contents in
human-readable form</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db accessdb">
<primary sortas="b-accessdb">accessdb</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="apropos">
<term><command>apropos</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Searches the <command>whatis</command> database and displays
the short descriptions of system commands that contain a given
string</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db apropos">
<primary sortas="b-apropos">apropos</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="catman">
<term><command>catman</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Creates or updates the pre-formatted manual pages</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db catman">
<primary sortas="b-catman">catman</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="lexgrog">
<term><command>lexgrog</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Displays one-line summary information about a given manual
page</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db lexgrog">
<primary sortas="b-lexgrog">lexgrog</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="man">
<term><command>man</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Formats and displays the requested manual page</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db man">
<primary sortas="b-man">man</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="mandb">
<term><command>mandb</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Creates or updates the <command>whatis</command> database</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db mandb">
<primary sortas="b-mandb">mandb</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="manpath">
<term><command>manpath</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Displays the contents of $MANPATH or (if $MANPATH is not set)
a suitable search path based on the settings in man.conf and the
user's environment</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db manpath">
<primary sortas="b-manpath">manpath</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="whatis">
<term><command>whatis</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Searches the <command>whatis</command> database and displays
the short descriptions of system commands that contain the given
keyword as a separate word</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db whatis">
<primary sortas="b-whatis">whatis</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="zsoelim">
<term><command>zsoelim</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Reads files and replaces lines of the form <emphasis>.so
file</emphasis> by the contents of the mentioned
<emphasis>file</emphasis></para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-man-db zsoelim">
<primary sortas="b-zsoelim">zsoelim</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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