Installing Groff-1.18.1

Estimated build time:           1.08 SBU
Estimated required disk space:  18 MB

Contents of Groff

Last checked against version 1.17.2.

The Groff package includes several text processing programs for text formatting. Groff translates standard text and special commands into formatted output, such as what you see in a manual page.

Groff installs the following:

Program Files

addftinfo, afmtodit, eqn, geqn (link to eqn), grn, grodvi, groff, grog, grolbp, grolj4, grops, grotty, gtbl (link to tbl), hpftodit, indxbib, lkbib, lookbib, mmroff, neqn, nroff, pfbtops, pic, post-grohtml, pre-grohtml, refer, soelim, tbl, tfmtodit, troff and zsoelim (link to soelim)

Groff Installation Dependencies

Last checked against version 1.17.2.

Bash: sh
Binutils: ar, as, ld, ranlib
Bison: bison
Diffutils: cmp
Fileutils: chmod, cp, install, ln, ls, mkdir, mv, rm, touch
Gcc: cc1, cc1plus, collect2, cpp0, g++, gcc
Grep: egrep, grep
Make: make
Gawk: awk
Sed: sed
Sh-utils: basename, date, echo, expr, hostname, uname
Textutils: cat, tr

Installation of Groff

Prepare Groff to be compiled:

./configure --prefix=/usr

Continue with compiling the package:

make

Install the package:

make install

Some groff/man document programs, such as xman, will not work work properly without the following symlinks:

ln -s soelim /usr/bin/zsoelim &&
ln -s eqn /usr/bin/geqn &&
ln -s tbl /usr/bin/gtbl