man gcc not working

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I was trying to read about how to make gcc compile C code to plain assembly for a bootloader, but when I tried to read the man pages there were none!

$ man gcc
No manual entry for gcc
See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available.
$

I tried to remove and then reinstall it, but without luck. I'm on debian 6.0.3 and gcc 4.4.5

Thanks

Guido

Posted 2012-03-15T02:42:22.667

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Answers

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The documentation isn't in the "gcc" package, it's in a separate package called "gcc-doc".

Wyzard

Posted 2012-03-15T02:42:22.667

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This doesn't work for me, as I get the following:

Package gcc-doc is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source

E: Package 'gcc-doc' has no installation candidate – Claire Nielsen – 2019-11-28T05:41:15.613

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technosaurus

Posted 2012-03-15T02:42:22.667

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