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| author |  Nathan Collins <nathan.collins@gmail.com> | 2012-06-03 15:05:59 -0700 |
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| committer | Nathan Collins <nathan.collins@gmail.com> | 2012-06-05 20:36:42 -0700 |
| commit | f5261f60c3d4462088768959014189a3aa61ff30 (patch) | |
| tree | 53b430c5f96f96dfdfc87955f5f6f5d986f5f717 /doc/install.mdwn | |
| parent | d41c1134cb1f49529b294407efd24061c8219347 (diff) | |
Make standalone man-page installation possible
The `cabal install git-annex` doesn't install the man pages, and the
Makefile only installed the man pages as part of a full build/install.
So, I factored out the documentation parts of the Makefile.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/install.mdwn')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/install.mdwn | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/install.mdwn b/doc/install.mdwn index fe0522aa0..1f4b54f54 100644 --- a/doc/install.mdwn +++ b/doc/install.mdwn @@ -20,6 +20,28 @@ As a haskell package, git-annex can be installed using cabal. For example: The above downloads the latest release. Alternatively, you can [[download]] it yourself and [[manually_build_with_cabal|install/cabal]]. +### Man pages + +Cabal does not install the man pages. Do: + + cd /tmp + cabal unpack git-annex + cd git-annex* + make install-mans PREFIX=~/.cabal + +to install man pages under ~/.cabal/share/man (or $PREFIX/share/man +generally). If ~/.cabal/bin is on your PATH, and you're on a Debian +derivative, you're probably set. + +On Debian systems, `manpath` will print the paths searched for manual +pages. The paths searched are inferred from your PATH. Experiments +indicate that, on Ubuntu, D/share/man will be searched for manual +pages whenever D/bin is on your PATH. So, having ~/.cabal/bin on your +PATH is enough to make the above example work. The `man manpath` does +not document this, but see +http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2003-08/0956.html for +some other special cases. + ## Installation by hand To build and use git-annex, you will need: |