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1Installation instructions
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4Download a tarball from http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/releases[] or clone the tig
5repository http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git[]. Documentation files are
6available either in the tarballs or in the above repository in the branch named
7'release'.
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9To install tig simply run:
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13 $ make install
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15To install documentation run:
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19If you had to install your own copy of libiconv, you'll probably want to pass
20the "--with-libiconv" option to the "configure" script to tell it where to look.
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22The following tools and packages are needed:
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25Tool Description
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27git-core Tig is just a frontend for git.
28ncurses Be sure to also have development files \
2bc4f7bd 29 installed. Usually they are available in a \
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31iconv 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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34asciidoc (>= 7.0), xmlto For building documentation. (Optional)
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