Setting up Man Pages

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## 5. Setting up Man Pages

After compiling the tree, or after installing the binary distribution you can get `man` to recognise the XFree86 man pages by adding `/usr/X11R6/man` to the `MANPATH` in `/etc/default/man`. The line should look similar to:

> `

>         MANPATH=/usr/man:/usr/gnu/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/man

> `

This allows all users to view the X man pages. You may change your own `MANPATH` environment variable if you do not want everyone to access the man pages.

By default the man pages are compressed using ```compress`'' to conserve space. If you do not want to compress the man pages change `CompressManPages` to `NO` in your ```host.def`'' file. Those using the binary distribution can use ```uncompress`'' to uncompress the man pages. Binary distributions contain pre-formatted versions of all man pages. If you are compiling the server yourself, you need to have the GNU Tools package installed to get groff, the GNU nroff replacement, to format the man pages. Use the `manroff` script to format the manual pages yourself.

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