[plug] Missing man pages

[Oliver White]

Thanks mate, tech support paid for in beer as always :-)

Yeah, I've found debian's package search feature to be fantastic. Whilst I
haven't found debian to be that far ahead of red hat (my old installation),
the infrastructure surrounding the distribution, including debian.org and
it's package management system to be fantastic. Hopefully other
distributions will reuse the apt technology in future.

And yes, I should have just done a search for 'man' on debian.

Christian wrote:

> 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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