In my university, I can do such things as:
- man strlen
- man strcpy
- man msgget
- man msgctl
and a nice manual page appears. On my PC I get
$ man strcat
No manual entry for strcat
Any help on how to get those documentation pages into my computer?
asked Sep 11, 2009 at 21:53
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Nowadays is easier, because the average computer is connected to the Internet. You can type "man foo" directly into google :-)– geekFeb 19, 2010 at 5:15
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Install the manpages-dev and manpages-posix-dev (thanks ChristopheD) packages. You should be able to find them in synaptic, or type
apt-get install manpages-dev
apt-get install manpages-posix-dev
at the command line.
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apt-get install manpages-dev manpages-posix-dev. Not doing thing the most efficient way drives my programmer OCD nuts. Sorry.– TJ LOct 9, 2009 at 19:05 -
On voidlinux, its the packages
man-pages-develandman-pages-posix. May 31, 2015 at 19:22 -
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worked perfectly for me. I used to have all those manpages at hand. I have updated my OS version several times and never lost the man pages before. Mar 3, 2017 at 9:14
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@CMCDragonkai The
manpages-posix-devcontains things likeman 3 acceptorman 3 connectwhich are handy if you are doing socket programming and what not. I am assuming that these are all of the system calls, but I am not sure.– TimFeb 1, 2021 at 2:27
For Fedora, you can install it using yum:
yum install man-pages libstdc++-docs
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This answer is correct and should not have been voted down, since OP did not mention any distro. Dec 3, 2015 at 15:04
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1@SoumyadipDM Looking at the edit history of the question shows the original title was "how to install man pages for C standard library functions in Ubuntu?" In fact, the title has always had Ubuntu in it. Dec 16, 2019 at 22:26
You may find glibc-doc package useful as well. From http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/glibc-doc:
Contains The GNU C Library Reference manual in info and html format as well as the man pages for libpthread functions and the complete GNU C Library ChangeLog.
On a ubuntu system they are in the packages
manpages-posix-dev (headers)
manpages-dev (functions)
answered Sep 11, 2009 at 22:05
Ubuntu + others; You can also do a search in aptitude. I.e:
:~$ aptitude search manpages
i asr-manpages - alt.sysadmin.recovery manual pages
i csound-manpages - manual pages for csound
i erlang-manpages - Erlang/OTP manual pages
i freebsd-manpages - Manual pages for a GNU/kFreeBSD system
i funny-manpages - more funny manpages
i gmt-manpages - Manpages for the Generic Mapping Tools
i manpages - Manual pages about using a GNU/Linux system
p manpages-cs - Czech version of the manual pages
p manpages-de - German manpages
p manpages-de-dev - German development manpages
i manpages-dev - Manual pages about using GNU/Linux for development
p manpages-es - Spanish man pages
p manpages-es-extra - Spanish extra manpages
p manpages-fr - French version of the manual pages about using GNU/Linux
p manpages-fr-dev - French version of the development manual pages
...
Where "i" mean the package is installed and "p" means purged/not installed.
~$ man aptitude
And then i.e:
~$ sudo apt-get install manpages-es-extra
Other systems has similar functions.
It always annoys me about ubuntu that I have to go searching around for the man pages and info pages to load. Fedora installs docs by default. At least they seem to be looking at it: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/10240/
