Ubuntu Missing C Manpages

November 5th, 2007 Pekk Posted in Ubuntu, Linux |

Today I tried looking up some C functions in the manpages on my ubuntu and noticed that they were missing. As it turns out, Ubuntu does not by default install the manpages developer package. To install the C reference man pages install the following packages via apt-get:

apt-get install manpages manpages-dev

If you’re still having problems try also:

apt-get install manpages-posix manpages-posix-dev

The latter is what worked for me but then I found out about the manpages-dev package, and most likely this package includes the posix-dev, but I’m not 100% sure.

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