Installing Texinfo-4.3

Estimated build time:           0.43 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
Diffutils: cmp
Fileutils: chmod, install, ln, ls, mkdir, mv, rm
Gcc: cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Grep: egrep, fgrep, grep
Make: make
Sed: sed
Sh-utils: basename, echo, expr, hostname, sleep
Texinfo: makeinfo
Textutils: cat, tr

 

Installation of Texinfo

Prepare Texinfo to be compiled:

./configure --prefix=/usr

Continue with compiling the package:

make

Install the package:

make install

Install the texinfo components which belong in a TeX installation:

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