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 either in the tarballs or in the above repository in the branch named
7 'release'.
9 To install tig simply run:
11 $ autoreconf
12 $ ./configure
13 $ make install
15 To install documentation run:
17 $ make install-doc
19 If you had to install your own copy of libiconv, you'll probably want to pass
20 the "--with-libiconv" option to the "configure" script to tell it where to look.
22 The following tools and packages are needed:
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25 Tool Description
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27 git-core Tig is just a frontend for git.
28 ncurses Be sure to also have development files \
29 installed. Usually they are available in a \
30 separate package ending with `-dev`.
31 iconv If iconv is not provided by the c library \
32 you need to change the Makefile to link it \
33 into the binary.
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36 The following optional tools and packages are needed for building
37 documentation:
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40 asciidoc (>= 8.0) Generates HTML and (DocBook) XML from text.
41 xmlto Generates manpages and chunked HTML from XML.
42 DocBook XSL (>= 1.72.0) Used by xmlto for building manpages.
43 DocBook (DSSL/Jade) tools Generates PDF from XML. \
44 Also known as docbook-utils.
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