How To Install man2html on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install man2html on Ubuntu.
What is man2html
man2html is:
Point your web browser at http://localhost/cgi-bin/man/man2html to read and search your man pages in the browser.
This program needs a CGI-capable HTTP server. After installation it might be required to manually enable CGI support in the HTTP server (CGI may be disabled by default for the security consideration). For apache2, this can be done with the following:
$ sudo a2enmod cgid $ sudo systemctl restart apache2
Features:
- Fast C CGI program for man/BSD-mandoc to HTML conversion.
- Works from the unformatted nroff/troff source.
- Source may be compressed.
- Does tbl tables (but not eqn equations).
- Generates hypertext links to foobar(1), abc@host, and xyzzy.h files
- CGI script for whatis-based alpha-indexes by section.
- CGI script for name-only alpha-indexes by section.
- CGI script for full text search (requires swish++)
- Front-end script to talk to a pre-launched netscape.
There are three methods to install man2html on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install man2html Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install man2html using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install man2html
Install man2html Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install man2html using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install man2html
Install man2html 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 man2html using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install man2html
How To Uninstall man2html on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the man2html package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove man2html
Uninstall man2html And Its Dependencies
To uninstall man2html and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove man2html
Remove man2html Configurations and Data
To remove man2html configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge man2html
Remove man2html configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove man2html configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge man2html
Dependencies
man2html have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install man2html package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.