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Re: What package should I install to see man pages for C library?



* Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in> 10.11.2008
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 01:54:30PM +0900, J.H.Kim wrote:
> > What package should I install to read C library manual using man?
> > I installed glibc-doc and glibc-doc-reference-2.3.6-1.all.deb but I  
> > cannot see man page for C libray such as "fprintf".
> > When I do "man fprintf", "No manual entry for fprintf" message is found.
> > Please let me know what package I should install.
> 
> manpages-dev.
 
Hello J.H.Kim,

you've the right package from Kumar, but for the future you can install
"apt-file" because it searches for files in packages, which you don't
have yet installed. Give it a try because it's an useful program.

Hth Michael

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