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# 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.

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## 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.

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## Man-pages Installation Dependencies

(Last checked against version 1.47.)

Bash: sh
Coreutils: install
Make: make

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