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This is probably an easy one but I could not figure out. On my Fedora, I get the man page when I type man getxattr. However, on my ubuntu 12.04, I get No manual entry for getxattr.

Here are the packages I installed hoping I will get to see above man page:

# dpkg -l | egrep "manp|posix|glibc" | awk '{print $1" "$2}'
ii glibc-doc
ii manpages
ii manpages-dev
ii manpages-posix
ii manpages-posix-dev

Could you help me figure out which package I need to install to get this man page. BTW, There are quite a few other systemcalls/C-function/whatever man pages missing on my ubuntu. I chose getxattr for composing this post.

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The getxattr(2) man page is from the libattr1-dev package. If you want it, install libattr1-dev. In general, if you can't find a manpage, look in http://manpages.ubuntu.com (which will show the package providing the manpage at the top), or use apt-file search.

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