Re: [Groff] Are your gropdf and pdfmom man pages installed?

[Deri James]

On Tue 01 Jul 2014 17:41:24 Dale Snell wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jul 2014 19:20:57 -0500
> 
> Dave Kemper <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I finally updated my system-wide groff installation from 1.21 to
> > 1.22.2.  I notice that two man pages new in 1.22.2, those for gropdf
> > and pdfmom, were not installed in the upgrade.
> > 
> > I don't know if this omission is due to a problem in groff itself, or
> > in Gentoo Linux's groff package.  If you have a non-Gentoo Linux box
> > on which you've installed groff 1.22.2 with your distro's package
> > manager, can you tell me whether "man gropdf" works?
> 
> I'm running Fedora 19, and I have man pages for both gropdf and
> pdfmom.  The man command displays them both just fine.  My groff
> version is 1.22.2.
> 
> Sounds to me like a packaging error in Gentoo Linux.
> 
> --Dale
> 
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I know some distributions split groff into multiple packages, sometimes they 
separate 
out parts of groff which require perl into a separate package. Gropdf and 
pdfmom 
may be in another package.

Deri