---
name: "dwww"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "dwww"
version: "1.16"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/dwww"
---

# dwww(1)

access documentation via WWW

## NAME

dwww - access documentation via WWW

## SYNOPSIS

http://localhost/dwww/index.html\
 **dwww**\
 **dwww** *program-name* \| *package-name*

## DESCRIPTION

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)](/sensible-browser/1.md) to load the URL. Otherwise, **dwww** first tries to use browser specified by DWWW\_BROWSER or DWWW\_X11\_BROWSER configuration variable (cf. [**dwww**(7)](/dwww/7.md)), than will use [**sensible-browser**(1)](/sensible-browser/1.md) 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.

## SEE ALSO

[**dwww-find**(8)](/dwww-find/8.md), [**dwww**(7)](/dwww/7.md), [**sensible-browser**(1)](/sensible-browser/1.md).

## AUTHOR

Lars Wirzenius \<liw@iki.fi\>. Modified by Robert Luberda \<robert@debian.org\>.\
 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.