6.7. Installing Man-pages-1.39

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6.7.1. Installation of Man-pages

Before man-pages is installed, the patch file has to be unpacked. Install Man-pages by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../man-pages-1.39.patch &&
make install

6.7.2. Command explanations

patch -Np1 -i ../man-pages-1.39.patch: We patch the man-pages package to include pages for ldd and ld.so.

6.7.3. Contents

The Man-pages package contains various manual pages that don't come with the packages.

6.7.4. Description

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

6.7.5. Dependencies

Man-pages-1.39 needs the following to be installed:


sh from the bash package

install from the fileutils package

make from the make package

patch from the patch package