Installing Less-378

Estimated build time:           0.13 SBU
Estimated required disk space:  2 MB

Contents of Less

Last checked against version 374.

Less is a file pager, or text viewer. It displays the contents of a file, or stream, and has the ability to scroll. Less has a few features not included in the more pager, such as the ability to scroll backwards.

Less installs the following:

Program Files

less, lessecho and lesskey

 

Less Installation Dependencies

Last checked against version 358.

Bash: sh
Binutils: as, ld
Diffutils: cmp
Fileutils: chmod, install, mv, rm, touch
Grep: egrep, grep
Gcc: cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Make: make
Sed: sed
Sh-utils: expr, hostname, uname
Textutils: cat, tr

 

Installation of Less

Prepare Less to be compiled:

./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin --sysconfdir=/etc

Continue with compiling the package:

make

Finish installing the package:

make install