Man-pages

For installation instructions see the Section called Installing Man-pages-1.60 in Chapter 6.

Official Download Location

Man-pages (1.60): 
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages/

Contents of Man-pages

(Last checked against version 1.60.)

The Man-pages package contains over 1200 manual pages. This documentation details the C and C++ functions, describes a few important device files and provides documents which would otherwise be missing from other packages.

Installed files: various manual pages

Short description

Examples of provided manual pages are the pages describing all the C and C++ functions, important device files, and important configuration files.

Man-pages Installation Dependencies

(Last checked against version 1.60.)

Bash: bash, sh
Coreutils: install, rm
Make: make