Installing Texinfo-4.6

Estimated build time:           0.2 SBU
Estimated required disk space:  17 MB

Contents of Texinfo

The Texinfo package contains programs used for reading, writing and converting Info documents, which provide system documentation.

Installed programs: info, infokey, install-info, makeinfo, texi2dvi and texindex

Texinfo Installation Dependencies

Texinfo depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed.

Installation of Texinfo

Prepare Texinfo for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/usr

Compile the package:

make

This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, the following command will do so:

make check

Install the package:

make install

And optionally install the components belonging in a TeX installation:

make TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf install-tex

The meaning of the make parameter: