How to install man pages for C standard library functions in Ubuntu?
In my university, I can do such things as:
- man strlen
- man strcpy
- man msgget
- man msgctl
and a nice manual page appears. On my PC I get
$ man strcat
No manual entry for strcat
Any help on how to get those documentation pages into my computer?
Install the manpages-dev
and manpages-posix-dev
(thanks ChristopheD) packages. You should be able to find them in synaptic, or type
apt-get install manpages-dev
apt-get install manpages-posix-dev
at the command line.
For Fedora, you can install it using yum
:
yum install man-pages libstdc++-docs
You may find glibc-doc package useful as well. From http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/glibc-doc:
Contains The GNU C Library Reference manual in info and html format as well as the man pages for libpthread functions and the complete GNU C Library ChangeLog.
On a ubuntu system they are in the packages
manpages-posix-dev (headers)
manpages-dev (functions)