dwww-format-man command not found

Introduction

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

dwww-format-man: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dwww-format-man: command not found

Solutions to dwww-format-man: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dwww-format-man 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-format-man command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.