1 Installation instructions
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4 Download a tarball from http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/releases[] or clone the tig
5 repository http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git[]. Documentation files are
6 available in the tarballs and in the 'release' branch of the tig repository.
8 The quick and simple way to install tig with documentation is to run:
11 $ make install install-doc
13 Optionally, you can use the `configure` script to detect library location:
19 If your iconv library is not in the default library and include path, you'll
20 probably want to pass the "--with-libiconv" option to the "configure" script to
21 tell it where to look. Note, if you are building from the tig repository, you
22 need to first make the configure script:
26 Release notes documenting notable changes are available in the NEWS file. When
27 upgrading, you are advised to also read them after you have completed the
30 The following tools and packages are needed:
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33 |=============================================================================
35 |git-core |Tig is just a frontend for git.
36 |ncurses |Be sure to also have development files
37 installed. Usually they are available in a
38 separate package ending with `-dev`.
39 |iconv |If iconv is not provided by the c library
40 you need to change the Makefile to link it
42 |=============================================================================
44 The following optional tools and packages are needed for creating the
45 configure script and building documentation:
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48 |=============================================================================
50 |autoconf |Contains autoreconf for generating configure
52 |asciidoc (>= 8.0) |Generates HTML and (DocBook) XML from text.
53 |xmlto |Generates manpages and chunked HTML from XML.
54 |DocBook XSL (>= 1.72.0) |Used by xmlto for building manpages.
55 |DocBook (DSSL/Jade) tools |Generates PDF from XML.
56 Also known as docbook-utils.
57 |=============================================================================