From 1cfd2e1c0572acf13f75897af3f5921cf0950e75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nathan Collins Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 01:57:31 -0700 Subject: Remove INSTALL note about man pages. --- doc/install.mdwn | 22 ---------------------- 1 file changed, 22 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/install.mdwn b/doc/install.mdwn index 1f4b54f54..fe0522aa0 100644 --- a/doc/install.mdwn +++ b/doc/install.mdwn @@ -20,28 +20,6 @@ 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: -- cgit v1.2.3