A.51. Texinfo

A.51.1. Official Download Location

Texinfo (4.6):
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/

A.51.2. 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

A.51.3.

A.51.4. Short descriptions

info is used to read Info documents. Info documents are a bit like man pages, but often go much deeper than just explaining all the flags. Compare for example man tar and info tar.

infokey compiles a source file containing Info customizations into a binary format.

install-info is used to install Info files. It updates entries in the Info index file.

makeinfo translates the given Texinfo source documents into various other formats: Info files, plain text, or HTML.

texi2dvi is used to format the given Texinfo document into a device-independent file that can be printed.

texindex is used to sort Texinfo index files.

A.51.5.

A.51.6. Texinfo Installation Dependencies

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