[plug] Missing man pages

[Christian]

Oliver White wrote:
> 
> Hi, I seem to be missing the man pages for system calls, eg/ sections 2
> and 3. This is not all that surprising, I chose a 'dialup box'
> configureation when installing debian, and consider this a mistake (no
> gcc!). Anyway, i f someone could point me to the packages that contain
> manual information for functions like link(), unlink(), perror(),
> kill(), chdir() and so on and so forth, I'd be very appreciative.

Try using dselect or the 'Packages' section at www.debian.org to find
package names etc.

In this case you need manpages-dev.  Other commonly needed man packages
packages include manpages and xmanpages.

Regards,

Christian.

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