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groff for Debian
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As of version 1.17-1, Debian groff was split into three packages:
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groff-base, groff, and groff-x11. At version 1.18-1 the groff-x11 package
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was merged back into groff. The current organization is as follows:
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groff-base - a stripped-down groff package containing the components
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required to read man pages in ASCII, Latin-1, UTF-8, and
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PostScript
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groff - all other components
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If you only need groff in order to read man pages in common formats, you can
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remove the main groff package and save some disk space. For more
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information, please see 'dpkg --print-avail <package>' or 'apt-cache show
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<package>'.
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If you see error messages like "groff: can't find `DESC' file", make sure
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that you have the groff package installed as well as groff-base, as this
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message indicates that the requested output device is not installed.
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Where is the groff documentation? It's not easy to find when you're
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unfamiliar with the system (as I well remember). The 'SEE ALSO' section of
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the roff(7) man page has a good index.
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The macro path in Debian groff is as follows:
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/usr/lib/groff/site-tmac
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- old directory for compatibility purposes
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/usr/share/groff/site-tmac (symlink to /etc/groff)
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- local macro configuration, such as man.local
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/usr/share/groff/<version>/tmac
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- macros installed as part of groff
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/usr/share/groff/tmac
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- macros installed by other Debian packages
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-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sun, 07 Apr 2013 21:51:24 +0100
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