package for kernel man pages (section 9)

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On Sun, 01 Dec 2013 20:52:57 +0200, David Shwatrz wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I want to be able to ran man call_usermodehelper or man 9
> call_usermodehelper and so the man page.
> 
> In fedora, after I install "yum install kernel-doc" I have this manual
> page.
> (before it I did not have it).
> It is section  9 in the man pages.
> 
> I wonder:
> do any of you have /usr/share/man/man9 ?
> as I have only /usr/share/man/man1-/usr/share/man/man8
> 
> regards,
> DS
> 
> 
> On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 7:46 PM, C de-Avillez <hggdh2 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 1 Dec 2013 19:10:21 +0200 David Shwatrz <dshwatrz at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> Is there a way to install the kernel man pages (section 9) in ubuntu ?
>>> In fedora, running "yum install kernel-doc" install them.
>>> In Ububtu, I tried:
>>> apt-get install kernel-doc Reading package lists... Done Building
>>> dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate
>>> package kernel-doc
>>
>>
>> I am _guessing_ you want the package linux-doc. But... there are no man
>> pages in it.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>

what kernel version and Ubuntu release version are you running?

for example:

$ uname -r
3.11.0-13-generic

$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 13.10

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