No Help for libc Function 'fprintf' Found on Ubuntu 9.04

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Fri May 1 17:34:07 UTC 2009


On 05/01/2009 10:19 AM, NoOp wrote:
> On 05/01/2009 09:55 AM, Tom Browder wrote:
>> My package manages shows the GNU man pages loaded except the package
>> explicitly mentions all but the section 3 pages (fprintf, etc.).
>> 
>> The help search turns up nothing similar to the man page I'm used to
>> using.  I did find fprintf on the ubuntu site but I'm surprised the
>> man pages on my computer don't include section 3.
>> 
>> Any 'apt-get' magic to solve that?
>> 
> 
> Don't know if this helps or not:
> 
> On hardy:
> ~$ locate fprintf
> /usr/lib/perl/5.8.8/auto/POSIX/fprintf.al
> /usr/lib/perl/5.8.8/auto/POSIX/vfprintf.al
> /usr/share/man/man3/curl_mfprintf.3.gz
> /usr/share/man/man3/curl_mvfprintf.3.gz
> /usr/share/man/man3/fprintf.3.gz
> /usr/share/man/man3/vfprintf.3.gz
> 
> on intrepid I only get:
> /usr/lib/perl/5.10.0/auto/POSIX/fprintf.al
> /usr/lib/perl/5.10.0/auto/POSIX/vfprintf.al
> 
> 

Found it:
$ sudo apt-get install manpages-dev

http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/manpages-dev
http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/all/manpages-dev/filelist







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