[bug #61193] failure to instal refer pre-processor

[G. Branden Robinson]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #61193 (project groff):

[comment #0 original submission:]
> I have just used yum to install groff-x11.86_64 on a RedHat system and it
does not give me the refer pre-processor. How do I install refer please.

Hi there,

I'm afraid you'll need to contact a support channel for your distribution
vendor.  The Savannah ticket tracker is for upstream development of groff by
the GNU Project; we don't have a lot of information about distributor packages
(and I myself am a Debian user).

I did find this:

https://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/devel/rawhide/x86_64/g/groff-1.22.4-8.fc35.x86_64.html

...which suggests that the `refer` program should be supplied by the `groff`
package...at least if you're running Fedora.  Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
is a proprietary distribution with support available only to subscribers, so
if that's what you mean by "RedHat", you may want to use the RHEL subscribers'
portal to get support.

I would _not_ expect to find `refer` in a package called `groff-x11`, which if
reasonably maintained, should contain only the `gxditview` program and related
files.  Most of groff has no dependency upon the X Window System.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Branden



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