How To Install Man.cgi In Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Kali, Fedora, Raspbian And MacOS?

How To Install Man.cgi In Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Kali, Fedora, Raspbian And MacOS?

man.cgi

browse man pages in your web browser

Maintainer: Robert Luberda



Section: doc

Install man.cgi

  • Debian apt-get install man2html Click to copy
  • Ubuntu apt-get install man2html Click to copy
  • Arch Linux pacman -S man2html Click to copy
  • Kali Linux apt-get install man2html Click to copy
  • Fedora dnf install man2html Click to copy
  • Raspbian apt-get install man2html Click to copy
  • macOS brew install man2html Click to copy

man2html

browse man pages in your web browser

Point your web browser at http://localhost/cgi-bin/man/man2html to read and search your man pages in the browser. 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.

To install the latest version of man.cgi in your favorite operating system just copy the man.cgi installation command from above and paste it into terminal. It will download and install the latest version of man.cgi 2026 package in your OS.