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Manual pages for C programming

Asked by Jan Kaláb

Which package should i install to get manual sections of C functions? (e.g. man malloc)

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Dario Teixeira (darioteixeira) said : 		#1

I did a basic search on the packages.ubuntu.com, and I reckon that the package manpages-dev contains what you need (see link below). And yes, there was a time when these man pages were installed by default in any distro...

http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/doc/manpages-dev

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Best Jan Kaláb (pitel) said : 		#2

That's what i was looking for. I also installed manpages-posix and manpages-posix-dev