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etch man pageshello, i have recently switched to debian etch from sarge. I did a very basic network install and finally got everything running like it want for my development activities except i have one problem i have not been able to solve myself. All my man pages documentation is missing, for example if i man gcc i get nothing, or do a man memcpy, nothing. basically i am missing all my man pages. I tried installing gcc-4.1-doc package but still nothing. i also tried installing the glib-doc package and nothing. very confused as to where my manpages are. btw, etch is working nicely. greensky Bookmark/Search this post with: 
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etch man pages
Have a look at the various notes in /usr/share/doc/
I had a problem with development software documentation and looking in the right directories I find notes saying something to the effect of: This documentation has been removed because it does not comply with the Debian Free Documentation requirements. Get the docs yourself from the GNU/FSF sites.
In some instances the 'man' page gives you that notice about the documentation being removed because it's not really free. And people think rms is a nut...
etch man pages
found most of the documentation after install manpages-dev. hopes it saves somebody some time.
Thanks!
I just came across the same problem. Thanks for following up with an answer!