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Re: [Groff] Are your gropdf and pdfmom man pages installed?
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Deri James |
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Re: [Groff] Are your gropdf and pdfmom man pages installed? |
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Wed, 02 Jul 2014 11:01:29 +0100 |
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On Tue 01 Jul 2014 17:41:24 Dale Snell wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jul 2014 19:20:57 -0500
>
> Dave Kemper <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I finally updated my system-wide groff installation from 1.21 to
> > 1.22.2. I notice that two man pages new in 1.22.2, those for gropdf
> > and pdfmom, were not installed in the upgrade.
> >
> > I don't know if this omission is due to a problem in groff itself, or
> > in Gentoo Linux's groff package. If you have a non-Gentoo Linux box
> > on which you've installed groff 1.22.2 with your distro's package
> > manager, can you tell me whether "man gropdf" works?
>
> I'm running Fedora 19, and I have man pages for both gropdf and
> pdfmom. The man command displays them both just fine. My groff
> version is 1.22.2.
>
> Sounds to me like a packaging error in Gentoo Linux.
>
> --Dale
>
> --
> "A proper saute pan should cause serious head injury if brought
> down hard against someone's skull. If you have any doubts about
> which will dent -- the victim's head or your pan -- then throw
> that pan right in the trash."
> -- Anthony Bourdain, _Kitchen Confidential_
I know some distributions split groff into multiple packages, sometimes they
separate
out parts of groff which require perl into a separate package. Gropdf and
pdfmom
may be in another package.
Deri