Installing Less-381

Estimated build time:           0.1 SBU
Estimated required disk space:  2 MB

Contents of Less

(Last checked against version 374.)

Less is a file pager, or text viewer. It displays the contents of a file, or stream, and has the ability to scroll. Less has a few features not included in the more pager, such as the ability to scroll backwards.

Less installs the following:

Program Files

less, lessecho and lesskey

Less Installation Dependencies

(Last checked against version 358.)

Bash: sh
Binutils: as, ld
Coreutils: cat, chmod, expr, hostname, install, mv, rm, touch, tr, uname
Diffutils: cmp
Grep: egrep, grep
GCC: cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Ncurses: (libraries)
Make: make
Sed: sed

Installation of Less

Prepare Less for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin --sysconfdir=/etc

The meaning of the configure option:

Compile the package:

make

And install it:

make install