Question
I am working with Ubuntu 13.04 running a Linux kernel version 3.8.0-32-generic. The man-pages version is:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19732942
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Russian[manu@laptop] man-pages: man --version
man 2.6.3
I am wondering what is the link between this man-pages version and my kernel version. While programming in C, I am using a system call which man page (in section 2) has been added in man-pages 3.47. Is there any way for me to install in a clean way this man version. By clean I mean being sure that I don't update some man pages with thing that are not supported by my Linux kernel or my Linux libc.
Edit according to Keith answer
[manu@laptop] man-pages: dpkg -l | grep "\-doc"
ii libx11-doc 2:1.5.0-1ubuntu1.1 all X11 client-side library (development documentation)
ii lmbench-doc 3.0-a9-1 all Documentation for the lmbench benchmark suite
ii mozart-doc 1.4.0-8ubuntu1 all Mozart Programming System (Documentation)
ii perl-doc 5.14.2-21 all Perl documentation
ii texlive-doc-base 2012.20120611-1 all TeX Live: TeX Live documentation
ii texlive-fonts-recommended-doc 2012.20120611-5 all TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-fonts-recommended
ii texlive-latex-base-doc 2012.20120611-5 all TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-latex-base
ii texlive-latex-extra-doc 2012.20120611-2 all TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-latex-extra
ii texlive-latex-recommended-doc 2012.20120611-5 all TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-latex-recommended
ii texlive-pictures-doc 2012.20120611-5 all TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-pictures
ii texlive-pstricks-doc 2012.20120611-2 all TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-pstricks
ii texlive-science-doc 2012.20120611-2 all TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-science
ii transcode-doc 3:1.1.7-4 all Text console video-stream processing tool (documentation)
ii ubuntu-docs 13.04.3 all Ubuntu Desktop Guide
ii xorg-docs-core 1:1.6-1ubuntu2 all Core documentation for the X.org X Window System
ii xorg-sgml-doctools 1:1.10-1 all Common tools for building X.Org SGML documentation
The result of searching for manpages packages
[manu@laptop] man-pages: dpkg -l | grep "manpages"
ii manpages 3.44-0ubuntu1 all Manual pages about using a GNU/Linux system
ii manpages-dev 3.44-0ubuntu1 all Manual pages about using GNU/Linux for development
ii manpages-posix 2.16-1 all Manual pages about using POSIX system
ii manpages-posix-dev 2.16-1 all Manual pages about using a POSIX system for development
Solution
2.6.3 is the version of the man command, not of the installed man pages. It's not relevant to anything other than the man command itself. The man pages are managed separately from the man command, typically in a package whose name includes -doc.
Normally your package management system should keep the documentation in sync with your installed software. dpkg -l should tell you what version of each package you have.
