Full installation details are included in ../README.md. If you are simply upgrading an old version of man-db and know that all of the defaults are correct (your config file will NOT be overwritten), you may follow the Quick install below. man-db requires several external packages: * libpipeline >= 1.5.0 (https://nongnu.org/libpipeline/) * flex >= 2.5.30 (http://flex.sf.net/) * a database library, one of: GDBM (https://www.gnu.org.ua/software/gdbm/) Berkeley DB < 6 NDBM and on systems without GNU libc: * libiconv >= 1.8 (https://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/) Some other packages are recommended and used if available: * zlib (https://zlib.net/) * libseccomp (https://github.com/seccomp/libseccomp) Quick INSTALL ============= * RUN `./configure ' * EDIT configuration files/headers if necessary * RUN `make ' * RUN `make install ' Note (1): If you don't know what or mean, you should be reading/following the install procedure in ../README.md instead. Note (2): You must not replace the `make install' step by copying the binaries to wherever you may want them. Various paths are hard coded into the binaries during `make' and unless you know exactly what you are doing, it is likely that run time errors will occur. Note (3): If you run make with path/prefix/name_transformation variable definitions such as `make prefix=/tmp zsoelim=soelim', you must supply the same variable definitions to `make install'. In general it is better to run `./configure' with the appropriate options rather than waiting until the make stage of the build.