dwww(1)

dwww1

Access documentation via www

Usage

dwww

dwww {program-name | package-name}

Overview

A typical Linux system has documentation in many formats (manual pages, info files, READMEs, and so on). dwww makes it possible to access all of these via the same interface, a WWW browser. This makes it easier to use the documentation.

To use dwww, load the URL given in the SYNOPSIS. If you have a web browser installed, you can also just run the dwww command which loads the URL. If BROWSER environment variable is set, dwww uses sensible-browser(1) to load the URL. Otherwise, dwww first tries to use browser specified by DWWW_BROWSER or DWWW_X11_BROWSER configuration variable (cf. dwww(7)), than will use sensible-browser(1) command.

If optional argument program-name or package-name is specified, dwww will search all documentation related to given program or package.

Environment

BROWSER

Program used to load the above mentioned URL.

Files

/etc/dwww/dwww.conf

Configuration file for dwww.

Releases

15 releases since Debian 2.0 (Hamm); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 2.0–2.2
  2. 3.0
  3. 3.1
  4. 4.0–5.0
  5. 6.0–10
  6. 11–13

Author

Lars Wirzenius <[email protected]>. Modified by Robert Luberda <[email protected]>.
Bugs should be reported via the Debian Bug Tracking System at <URL:https://bugs.debian.org/>.

dwww is licensed via the GNU General Public License. While it has been written for Debian, porting it to other systems is strongly encouraged.

From dwww 1.16 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.