groff - Document formatting system HOWTO

ChangeLog


2025-03-27	- 1.22.2 -> 1.23.0
		- Home page URL http to https
		- Updated Slackware packages with 14.2 and 15.0
		- xfree86 and x.org links to https,
		  added "or Wayland"
		- Removed md5sum and sha1sum check, added sha256
		  and cksum
		- Link to release announcement, manual, mailing list,
		  Savannah project page
		- Added m4 prerequisite link
		- Added uchardet prerequisite link
		- Added pkgconfig prerequisite link
2024-12-09	- Added Wikipedia link
		- Added Git repository link
2014-05-04	- 1.19.2 -> 1.22.2
		- Updated Slackware note for 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, and
		  14.1, removed older
		- Changed download URL to ftpmirror.gnu.org
		- Added alternate download URLs
		- Updated download URL from http://groff.ffii.org/ to the
		  standard GNU home page, which it was redirecting to:
		- Changed Ghostscript home page link and ESPGS howto link to
		  just Ghostscript howto link
		- Added optional XFree86/X prerequisite link
2005-12-16	- Source /etc/profile.d/groff.sh
		- Updated Slackware note for 10.2
2005-09-09	- 1.19.1 -> 1.19.2
		- Changed md5sum verification to output OK (or not)
		- Added sha1sum verification
		- Moved source directory (see note <a href="howtos.php?msd">here</a>)
		- root.root -> root:root, run when $UID = 0
		- Rearranged options to shut up new version of find
		- Removed make, gcc, and fileutils/coreutils
		- Updated Slackware note to include 10.1
2004-09-15	- 1.19 -> 1.19.1
		- Changed download URL from ftp://groff.ffii.org/pub/groff/
		  (connection refused) to http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/groff/
		- Updated prerequisites with a few obvious ones
		- Removed sha1sum verification, added md5sum
		- Added gpg verification
2003-09-30	- Updated link to espgs from cups howto to new espgs howto
2003-09-25	- Versions 1.18.1 and 1.19 have yet to be verified on
		  ftp.gnu.org since they got cracked, so I changed the
		  download URL to grab it from the home site in Germany.
2003-08-07	- Added note + link to the home FTP server in Germany
		- Put the sha1sum in the howto directly
		- Updated modification of /etc/profile with creating
		  /etc/profile.d/groff.sh
2003-05-16	- 1.18.1 -> 1.19
2003-04-21	- Removed the note about the ftp.gnu.org gpg sigs being
		  broken, they fixed it
		- Modernized a few things
2003-03-27	- Changed home page link from the gnu.org one:
		  http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/
		  to the "real" one:
		  http://groff.ffii.org/
		- Updated prerequisites, modernized the howto
		- Added section for converting the manual to dvi, pdf, html
		  format (from texinfo)
2002-10-18	- 1.18 -> 1.18.1
		- Added removal of previous version
2002-08-20	- Replaced setting MANPAGER in /etc/profile with PAGER.
		  perldoc uses PAGER and if MANPAGER isn't set, man will use
		  PAGER too.
2002-08-06	- Added a note about setting MANPAGER
2002-08-05	- Added a note about grohtml, updated description
2002-08-04	- First entry

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