Where are the man pages for C++? [closed]

Answer 1

cppman is a C++ manpage formatter available on Github.

On request, it generates manpages from cplusplus.com, and it is quite good at it. Your manpage viewer will be cppman instead of man, though, and you still need to be online.

Answer 2

In Ubuntu, after installing libstdc++-6-x.x-doc, these docs are available via man, examples(libstdc++-4.8-doc)

man std::list
man std::weak_ptr
man std::ios_base

To get a list of these entries, use

apropos -r '^std' | vi -

This command gets all man entries beginning with std and sends them to vi.

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Update: as of libstdc++-4.8-doc, the prefix is std:: instead of std_.

Answer 3

On Ubuntu an offline copy of the excellent documentation at http://cppreference.com is available in the packages cppreference-doc-en-html (HTML) and cppreference-doc-en-qch (Qt Help format).

To install:

sudo apt-get install cppreference-doc-en-html

Answer 4

Install the man pages:

$ sudo apt-get install libstdc++6-4.4-doc

Answer 5

On RHEL 6 the package libstdc++-docs installs documentation in /usr/share/doc AND man pages:

sudo yum install -y libstdc++-docs

now I can: man std::string

for example.

Answer 6

The C++ standard library is documented at http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/. Your implementation might bring it's own documentation. For example libstdc++ from the GNU Compiler Collection is documented at http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/. Look into the source distribution of the specific library to find out if and where the documentation is.