6.25. Installing Less-381

6.25.1. Contents of Less

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.

Installed programs: less, lessecho and lesskey

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6.25.3. Less Installation Dependencies

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

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6.25.5. Installation of Less

Prepare Less for compilation:

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

The meaning of the configure option:

• --sysconfdir=/etc: This option tells the programs created by the package to look in /etc for their configuration files.

Compile the package:

make

And install it:

make install