How To Install dwww on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dwww on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is dwww
dwww is:
All installed on-line documentation will be served via a local HTTP server at http://localhost/dwww/. This package runs cron scripts to convert available resources to the HTML pages. Executing the dwww command starts a sensible WWW browser locally to access them.
You need to install a CGI-capable HTTP server and enable its CGI script capability manually (CGI may be disabled by default for the security consideration). For apache2, do something along the following:
$ sudo a2enmod cgid $ sudo systemctl restart apache2
The default for the HTTP/CGI access is limited to the local user for the security consideration.
There are three methods to install dwww on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install dwww Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dwww using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dwww
Install dwww Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dwww using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dwww
Install dwww Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install dwww using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dwww
How To Uninstall dwww on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the dwww package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dwww
Uninstall dwww And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dwww and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dwww
Remove dwww Configurations and Data
To remove dwww configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dwww
Remove dwww configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dwww configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dwww
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dwww package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
