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Curious Apprentice
Asked: 2012-05-02 19:28:58 +0800 CST

How to search and view docs installed in usr/share/doc [duplicate]

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How are typical users expected to read the documentation in /usr/share/doc?

A way to search and view those docs using web browser is by Installing "dwww" but this needs apache2.2 to run in the back all the time.(It was creating port conflicts and I could not use XAMPP server without removing it.)

Is there any second alternative to view and search these ?

Can I just delete the whole "doc" folder ? Either I want to use them or delete.

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1 Answers

  1. You can run Apache (either the one from XAMPP or from Ubuntu) on a different port, this is an easy config change.

    Info on Listen directive

    On my machine, the file which contains the directive is /etc/apache2/ports.conf. Just edit it using

    gksudo gedit /etc/apache2/ports.conf

    change port to, say, 88:

    NameVirtualHost *:88
Listen 88

    and restart Apache:

    sudo service apache2 restart

    Then you can access it at http://localhost:88/

    Or you can use Ubuntu's Apache and other packages instead of XAMPP - I never understood the need for it on a Linux system anyway.

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