Linux has No C Man Pages

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This is peculiar. I recently installed an operating system called "Semplice" Linux. It's debian based and very similar to Crunchbang (Lightweight and openbox-oriented).

That aside, I cannot run man printf or any C command for that matter.

I can, however, run man echo and man cat and other linux commands, but no C commands.

I have already run: mandb to no avail.

Note: I did not have to manually install C (build-essential or libc6 or anything).

for printf() try man "3p printf" if it is you have gcc package installed only it will have the man pages of C — user2760375, Feb 18 '14 at 04:44
...either ServerFault or SuperUser, yes. It's a system administration problem, not a programming question. — Charles Duffy, Feb 18 '14 at 04:47
Similar question: http://superuser.com/questions/393772/man-pages-in-linux — ffledgling, Feb 18 '14 at 04:48
@Jeyaram I wrote a loop to iterate 1-9 to no avail. It has been fixed (answer chose) — Goodies, Feb 18 '14 at 05:06
Install `manpages-dev` package (or its equivalent on your distribution) — Basile Starynkevitch, Feb 18 '14 at 08:18

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 18 '14 at 04:44

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The 'manpages-dev' package should contain the man pages for C. I have not used semplice, but that is the package name on other debian based systems.

answered Feb 18 '14 at 04:44

John Meacham

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What would I do without you? – Goodies Feb 18 '14 at 05:05

Linux has No C Man Pages

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