-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/07 13:28, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > > I am running a debian derivative system. > > # apt-get install manpages > > tells that latest manpges are already installed, but > > $ man fork (or man 2 fork) > > says that there is no manual entr for fork > > So how do I get and install the mapges?
Others have told you the package names. Here's how to find it yourself: $ apt-cache search manpages | sort or, more specifically: $ apt-cache search manpages | sort | grep manpa asr-manpages - alt.sysadmin.recovery manual pages erlang-manpages - Erlang man pages freebsd-manpages - Manual pages for a GNU/kFreeBSD system funny-manpages - more funny manpages gmt-manpages - Manpages for the Generic Mapping Tools libfreefem-dev - Development library, header files and manpages manpages - Manual pages about using a GNU/Linux system manpages-de - German manpages manpages-de-dev - German development manpages manpages-dev - Manual pages about using GNU/Linux for development manpages-es - Spanish man pages manpages-es-extra - Spanish extra manpages manpages-fi - Finnish man pages manpages-fr - French version of the manual pages about using GNU/Linux manpages-fr-dev - French version of the development manual pages manpages-fr-extra - French version of the manual pages manpages-hu - Hungarian manpages manpages-it - Contains a collection of Italian man pages manpages-ja - Japanese version of the manual pages (for users) manpages-ja-dev - Japanese version of the manual pages (for developers) manpages-ko - Korean version of the manual pages manpages-nl - Dutch manpages manpages-pl - Polish man pages manpages-pl-dev - Polish man pages for developers manpages-posix - Manual pages about using POSIX system manpages-posix-dev - Manual pages about using a POSIX system for development manpages-pt - Portuguese Versions of the Manual Pages manpages-pt-dev - Portuguese Versions of the Manual Pages manpages-ru - Russian translations of Linux manpages manpages-tr - Turkish version of the manual pages manpages-zh - Chinese manual pages tclx8.3-doc - Extended Tcl (TclX) version 8.3.5 -- TclX manpages tclx8.4-doc - Extended Tcl (TclX) - manpages tkx8.3-doc - Extended Tcl (TclX) version 8.3.5 -- TkX manpages xmanpages-ja - Japanese manual pages for X -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFtmxqS9HxQb37XmcRAhgEAJ91Nosrv6azOUvC4G9aa/ebxZ4MfQCbBNBG Yg5FfwiYJ3JaJRckYhvJyz0= =qvfI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]