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<sect2>
<title>Installation of Man</title>

<para>Run the following commands to install man:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>for i in configure src/Makefile.in src/makewhatis.sh
do
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;cp $i $i.backup &amp;&amp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;sed 's/gawk/awk/g' $i &gt; tmp~ &amp;&amp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;mv tmp~ $i
done &amp;&amp;
chmod 755 configure &amp;&amp;
./configure -default &amp;&amp;
make &amp;&amp;
make install</userinput></screen></para>

<para>You may want to take a look at the man hint at <ulink
url="&hints-root;man.txt">&hints-root;man.txt</ulink> 
which deals with formatting and compression issues for man pages.</para>

</sect2>