CUDA Toolkit no longer provides official man page, and only provides reference in PDF files. There are web pages, but it is hard to look up.

CUDAMAN makes CUDA API search easier by generating man pages out of the official CUDA reference web pages and installing them.

To use CUDAMAN, you need to firstly generate the man pages, copy the man pages to appropriate locations, and register them to man-db. You can do this in one step, by simply running make; make install.

• Make
• wget
• python 2.6 or 2.7
• libxml2 module for python
• pandoc

On debian or Ubuntu, you can install these dependencies using:

apt-get install python-libxml2 pandoc make wget

Simply type:

make 

By default, this creates man pages in ./out directory. You can change the directory by giving OUT_DIR option:

make OUT_DIR=../cuda_man

Simply type:

make install

By default, this copies man pages into ~/man/man3 directory, compresses them, and register them to man-db. You can change the installation path by giving INSTALL_DIR like

make install INSTALL_DIR=/usr/share/man/man3

If you gave OUT_DIR to make in the previous step, you also need to give the same option here as well.