This patch hardcodes the installation prefix to /usr and updates the location of the man pages from $PREFIX/man to $PREFIX/share/man. --- cowsay-3.03/install.sh.orig 2020-06-05 13:39:36.615616000 +0000 +++ cowsay-3.03/install.sh 2020-06-05 13:40:24.178066800 +0000 @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ echo Okay, time to install this puppy. echo s,%BANGPERL%,!$usethisperl,\; > install.pl -echo s,%PREFIX%,$PREFIX,\; >> install.pl +echo s,%PREFIX%,/usr,\; >> install.pl set -x mkdir -p $PREFIX/bin || (mkdir $PREFIX; mkdir $PREFIX/bin) $usethisperl -p install.pl cowsay > $PREFIX/bin/cowsay @@ -74,8 +74,8 @@ chmod a+x $PREFIX/bin/cowsay ln -s cowsay $PREFIX/bin/cowthink -mkdir -p $PREFIX/man/man1 || ($mkdir $PREFIX; mkdir $PREFIX/man; mkdir $PREFIX/man/man1) -$usethisperl -p install.pl cowsay.1 > $PREFIX/man/man1/cowsay.1 -chmod a+r $PREFIX/man/man1/cowsay.1 -ln -s cowsay.1 $PREFIX/man/man1/cowthink.1 +mkdir -p $PREFIX/share/man/man1 || ($mkdir $PREFIX; mkdir $PREFIX/man; mkdir $PREFIX/man/man1) +$usethisperl -p install.pl cowsay.1 > $PREFIX/share/man/man1/cowsay.1 +chmod a+r $PREFIX/share/man/man1/cowsay.1 +ln -s cowsay.1 $PREFIX/share/man/man1/cowthink.1 mkdir -p $PREFIX/share/cows || (mkdir $PREFIX; mkdir $PREFIX/share; mkdir $PREFIX/share/cows) tar -cf - $filelist | (cd $PREFIX/share && tar -xvf -)