Meta package gcc-doc missing

[James Harris]

GCC man pages were noted as being not present:

$ man cc
No manual entry for cc
See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available.
$ man gcc
man: can't resolve /usr/share/man/man1/g++-4.6.1.gz: No such file or directory
No manual entry for gcc
See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available.
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Apparently they should be brought in via meta package gcc-doc but that is missing:

$ sudo apt-get install gcc-doc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
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
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Related info:

$ uname -a
Linux pi2 3.18.7-v7+ #755 SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 12 17:20:48 GMT 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux
$
$ dpkg -s libc6 | grep ^Version
Version: 2.13-38+rpi2+deb7u7
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$ apt-cache search gcc | grep doc
cxref - Generates LaTeX and HTML documentation for C programs
gcc-4.4-doc - documentation for the GNU compilers (gcc, gobjc, g++)
gcc-4.6-doc - documentation for the GNU compilers (gcc, gobjc, g++)
gcc-4.7-doc - documentation for the GNU compilers (gcc, gobjc, g++)
gcc-doc-base - several GNU manual pages
gccgo-4.6-doc - documentation for the GNU Go compiler (gccgo)
gccgo-4.7-doc - documentation for the GNU Go compiler (gccgo)
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The specific package gcc-4.6-doc *can* be installed. It is just the meta package which seems to be missing.

[Diederik (didi-debian)]

I can confirm that the gcc-doc (meta-) package is missing on both wheezy and jessie

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

gcc-doc is in contrib in Debian.

Read more about contrib in Raspbian at https://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianFAQ#Are_.27contrib.27_and.2For_.27non-free.27_included_the_repository.3F