This is the README file for console-tools version 1998.08.11.

This package contains utilities and data files compatible with kernel
version 1.1.54 and later. Setfont requires 1.1.92 or later.

To compile, you just need the standard make+gcc+libc suite.  To format
the docs, you'll need sgmltools (formerly linuxdoc-sgml).

It is mainly tested for libc6 (aka glibc2), so there may be minor
problems with libc5.

IMPORTANT NOTE: if you use libc5, you'll need a recent version.
5.4.33 and above seem to work fine, whereas 5.3.12 is know to have a
bug that causes problems to console-tools.


To install this package:

1) unpack it somewhere

2) invoke "./configure --help" to look at configuration parameters

2) invoke "./configure" with any chosen options

3) "make" and "make install". This copies by default the utilities to
/usr/bin, man pages to /usr/man/man? and data files to the subdirectories
keytables, consolefonts, consoletrans and videomodes of /usr/share/.


Then have a look at the `doc/lct.txt' file.


Report problems with this package to:  Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>.

3 June 1998.
