5.29. Installing Texinfo-4.6

5.29.1. 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

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5.29.3. Texinfo Installation Dependencies

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

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5.29.5. Installation of Texinfo

Prepare Texinfo for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/tools

Compile the programs:

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

Then install them and their documentation:

make install