Understanding the Absence of GCC Man Pages
└─$ man gcc
No manual entry for gcc
└─$ which gcc
/usr/bin/gcc
Missing Man Page: The
man gcc
not returning any result could indicate that the corresponding man page forgcc
is not installed on your system.Compiler Exists: The
which gcc
command confirms that thegcc
compiler does exist.Installing Man Page: To obtain the man page for
gcc
, you may need to install a documentation or manual package forgcc
. In many Linux distributions, these packages are often split off and provided separately.Installation Method: On a Debian or Ubuntu system, you could use
sudo apt-get install gcc-doc
to install. On a Red Hat or CentOS system, you could usesudo yum install gcc-doc
to install.