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Re: Which deb package contains the C Lib Reference manual?



On Friday, 14. September 2007 09:49, Michael Yang wrote:
> I wanna to reference the help of C library using "man" command, i.g. "man
> strcpy", what package should I have?
>
> I have had "gcc gcc-base gcc-doc gcc-4.1 gcc-base-4.1 gcc-doc-4.1"
> installed on my system.
> What should I add for the help available on my system?
>
> your help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks.
try manpages-dev, glibc-doc and glibc-doc-reference.

You might find apt-file quite useful when searching files that are not 
installed, for example:
# apt-file update
% apt-file search strcpy | grep man

-- 
Juha Tuuna



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