dwww command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

dwww: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dwww: command not found

Solutions to dwww: command not found

How To Fix dwww: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu dwww is provided by dwww package.

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.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install dwww

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install dwww.

sudo apt -y install dwww

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install dwww

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix dwww command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.