Man pages lack

James Gray james at gray.net.au
Tue Nov 18 20:35:05 UTC 2008


On 19/11/2008, at 5:24 AM, Jesse Brent Coats wrote:

> I seem to remember that on other distributions of linux I have used  
> that
> the C standard library was documented in man pages.  I could enter  
> "man
> fprintf" at the system prompt, and a man page would be presented.  Is
> there an easy way to install said pages on my hardy system.

According to this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=10420

you need these packages:
manpages-posix
manpages-posix-dev

Google "ubuntu manpage C" (sans quotes) will reveal much more :)

HTH,

James
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