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index 534f20849..f06e611df 100644
--- a/source/a/pkgtools/manpages/installpkg.8
+++ b/source/a/pkgtools/manpages/installpkg.8
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ installpkg \- install Slackware packages.
.B \--terse
]
[
+.B \--terselength <length>
+]
+[
.B \--ask
]
[
@@ -39,13 +42,16 @@ installpkg \- install Slackware packages.
[
.B \--tagfile /somedir/tagfile
]
+[
+.B \--threads <number>
+]
.BI packagename
[
.B packagename2 ...
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B installpkg
-installs single or multiple *.tgz (or .tbz, .tlz, .txz) binary packages designed
+installs single or multiple *.txz (or .tbz, .tgz, .tlz) binary packages designed
for use with the Slackware Linux distribution onto your system.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
@@ -73,6 +79,9 @@ package(s) or not. Generally used when installpkg is called from other scripts.
.B \--terse
Install the package displaying only a single description line to stdout.
.TP
+.B \--terselength <length>
+Maximum line length of --terse mode output. Default is the number of terminal columns.
+.TP
.B \--ask
Used with -menu mode. When selected, always ask if a package should be
installed regardless of what the package's priority is.
@@ -87,6 +96,12 @@ the values set in the tagfile for the entire package list.
.B \--tagfile /somedir/tagfile
Specify a different file to use for package priorities (in this example, /somedir/tagfile
will be used). The default is "tagfile" in the package's directory.
+.TP
+.B \--threads <number>
+For xz/plzip compressed packages, set the maximum number of threads to be used for
+decompression. Only has an effect if a multithreaded compressor was used, and then
+only on large packages. The default for plzip is the number of CPU threads available.
+The default for xz is 2.
.SH EXAMPLES
.TP
.B Install a font package for X: