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@ Tim McNamara : what are the differences between manpage and man program ?I'd like to install a completed man so i can have descriptions of all Unix function.(kind of have all the sus on my shell) @kuropenguin : How do i install those? What is the command? Thanks in advance

viet dung 2010-10-13 04:29:32

@viet dung Please tell us what Linux distribution you are running. Ubuntu? Debian? Red Hat? SuSE? Other? Every distribution has different ways to do this.

birryree 2010-10-13 04:31:12

@viet dung To answer your question to Tim McNamara - manpages are the actual documents you read when you do `man something`. The `man` program is the application that handles the retrieval and formatting of the documentation from its database (`mandb`)

birryree 2010-10-13 04:32:48

I have Ubuntu Linux distribution

viet dung 2010-10-13 05:05:07

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On Debian the commands would be (as root)

apt-get install man-db
apt-get install manpages-dev

And for completeness

apt-get install glibc-doc

Gaius 2010-10-13 04:38:14

thanks , it works perfectly

viet dung 2010-10-13 05:47:20

Please click "accept" then :-)

Gaius 2010-10-13 10:10:41

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