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As a newbie of Linux Driver Developer, I often need to find a kernel API's usage.

In this post's answer, amrith92 said there exit section 9 of man command. After testing on my Debian, however, It seems no section 9 on in my system.

How could I install section 9 of man command in Debian System.

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In Debian 7.8 (Wheezy) you need to install linux-manual-3.2 package:

sudo apt-get install linux-manual-3.2

Package description:

This package provides the Kernel Hacker's Guide in the form of manual pages, describing the kernel API functions. They are installed into section 9 of the manual.

In other Debian version try to search package you need:

apt-cache search linux-manual
apt-cache show <package_name>
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  • This package doesn't seem to be available in buster. All I can find is `kernel-doc` (which is a set of HTML documents, not man pages). Any updated alternative? – Toby Speight Apr 12 '18 at 17:17
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    An alternative might be the package `linux-manual-3.16` which can be downloaded from the [Debian FTP server](http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux/linux-manual-3.16_3.16.56-1+deb8u1_all.deb). – fcdt Jun 29 '21 at 13:02