Short installation guide for Arch Linux users.

Morten Bo Johansen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.printing.groff.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Please find pasted in below a short guide I have made for installing Groff
on an Arch Linux system. It deals with installing the URW fonts and also
getting the right packages installed for producing the documentation files.

After a fresh installation of an Arch system on my computer a couple of days
ago, I was faced with the problem of getting the URW fonts as well as
guessing what packages were needed for producing the documentation files and
so I thought that including the instructions below might be helpful to other
Arch users. If there is any interest in including it in one of the INSTALL.*
files, I think that maybe INSTALL.REPO file might be pertinent? Or perhaps
the file MORE.STUFF?

Other Arch users here might please try out the instructions to ascertain
their correctness.

Regards,
Morten


   						###### Install Groff from source on Arch Linux ######
   
   # First, install some needed packages (they may already be installed).
   # texlive-latexextra pulls in the needed dependencies for creating
   # documentation files
   
       pacman -S base-devel git texlive-latexextra
   
   # Get a tool to interact with the Arch User Repository (AUR), yay is good.
   
       git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
   
   # Create and install the yay package.
   
       cd yay
       makepkg -si
   
   # Install the gsfonts-type1 package from the AUR. It contains the 35 urw font
   # metrics files which are installed in /usr/share/fonts/Type1/
   
       yay -S gsfonts-type1
   
   # In the groff source directory, run configure. The "--with-urw-fonts-dir= .."
   # argument is still needed.
   
      ./configure --with-urw-fonts-dir=/usr/share/fonts/Type1/
   
   # Compile and install
   
      make
      make install
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