Installing Texinfo-4.6

Estimated build time:           0.2 SBU
Estimated required disk space:  12 MB

Contents of Texinfo

(Last checked against version 4.2.)

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

Texinfo installs the following:

Program Files

info, infokey, install-info, makeinfo, texi2dvi and texindex

Texinfo Installation Dependencies

(Last checked against version 4.0.)

Bash: sh
Binutils: ar, as, ld, ranlib
Coreutils: basename, cat, chmod, echo, expr, hostname, install, ln, ls,
             mkdir, mv, rm, sleep, tr
Diffutils: cmp
GCC: cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Grep: egrep, fgrep, grep
Make: make
Sed: sed
Texinfo: makeinfo

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 option: