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 1.54.)

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.

Man-pages installs the following:

Support Files

Various manual pages.

Descriptions

(Last checked against version 1.54.)

Program file descriptions

manual pages

Examples of provided manual pages are the manual pages describing all the C and C++ functions, a few important /dev/ files and more.

Man-pages Installation Dependencies

(Last checked against version 1.47.)

Bash: sh
Coreutils: install
Make: make