On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 9:57 AM Rainer Weikusat via Dng
<dng@???> wrote:
>
> The Original Linux Fan via Dng <dng@???> writes:
> > I'm having trouble getting gcc-doc on my Devuan
> > distro. Any ideas? This one is slightly older, but
> > neither `man gcc` nor `info gcc` works. I've tried
> > `apt install gcc-doc` and using synaptic to retrieve
> > any gcc docs, all to no avail.
> >
> > Ideas would be welcome and greatly appreciated.
>
> Does apt-cache show gcc-doc show package information or a Package not
> found error? If it's the latter, you might need to add non-free to your
> sources.list entries.
>

Greetings

I'm only beginning by odyssey into programming so I read lots and try to ask
questions so that I understand at least 'something' better.

When I did # man gcc or # gcc man I get - - -
# man gcc
root@memyself:/# gcc man
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find man: No such file or directory
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
root@memyself:/# apt-cache show gcc-doc
Package: gcc-doc
Version: 5:12.1.0-1
Installed-Size: 31
Maintainer: Debian GCC Maintainers <debian-gcc@???>
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: g++ (<< 4:4.1.1-7), gcc (<< 4:4.1.1-7)
Depends: gcc-12-doc (>= 12.1.0-1~)
Breaks: g++ (<< 4:4.1.1-7), gcc (<< 4:4.1.1-7)
Homepage: http://gcc.gnu.org/
Description: documentation for the GNU compilers (gcc, gobjc, g++)
Description-md5: 5c7b4ceecbb8f4546afea54849cba957
Source: gcc-doc-defaults (5:25)
Tag: devel::doc, devel::lang:c, devel::lang:c++, devel::lang:objc,
devel::library, implemented-in::c, role::devel-lib,
role::documentation, role::metapackage
Section: contrib/doc
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/DEBIAN/contrib/g/gcc-doc-defaults/gcc-doc_12.1.0-1_amd64.deb
Size: 6816
MD5sum: a53919c0849fda877de034ddd651aa86
SHA256: 2d7a526239bbebc20111e50bd364cfe113433a4b0b0d472965edf7abc44b2563

This suggests that something 'is' installed.

How do I call it - - please?

TIA