dpkg-www - program to remotely open a WWW Debian package browser

dpkg-www is used to remotely control a web browser and open a dpkg URL on the localhost from an
       interactive shell or script.

       If the command is invoked while running under the X Window System the script will try to find an
       installed X browser to open the specified URL.  If not running under X, it will try to use a text browser
       instead.

       If one of the known browsers is found and there is an instance already running it will be asked to open
       the dpkg URL on localhost with the optional query supplied on the command line.  If there is no browser
       running, it will start automatically a new one.

       The functionality provided by this program is identical to running a web browser with the -remoteopenURL(http://localhost/cgi-bin/dpkg) argument or opening the same URL from within the browser.

       dpkg-www-installer(8) is a helper application which can configured in the WWW browser for web
       installation. It should never be invoked directly by the user.

dpkg-www
           This would open a dpkg URL on localhost listing all the installed packages.

       dpkg-wwwbash
           This would open a dpkg URL asking info on the bash package.

       dpkg-www-hpisolobash
           This would open a dpkg URL asking info on the bash package on host pisolo.

       dpkg-www'dpkg*'
           This would open a dpkg URL listing all packages matching dpkg*.

       dpkg-www/bin/bash
           This would open a dpkg URL asking info on the package(s) owning the file /bin/bash.

       dpkg-wwwdepends=coreutils
           This would open a dpkg URL listing all packages depending on coreutils.

       dpkg-www--stdoutdepends=awk|grep^ii
           This would list on stdout all packages depending on awk and grep all lines of installed packages.

/etc/dpkg-www.conf~/.dpkg-www
           Configuration  files  for dpkg-www.  It is not necessary for these files to exist, there are sensible
           defaults for everything, but you can specify your preferred www  browser  with  the  DPKG_WWW_BROWSER
           variable, for example DPKG_WWW_BROWSER=firefox.

       dpkg-www - program to remotely open a WWW Debian package browser

-s, --stdout
           Redirect  output  to  stdout.  Requires  one  of  the  text  browsers  (elinks, links2, links or w3m)
           installed.

       -h, --hosthost
           Send the query to a remote host, where dpkg-www must be installed.

       query
           Specifies an optional package name, an absolute pathname or a query argument which is passed  to  the
           dpkg cgi-bin. See dpkg-www(8) for more information about the use of the CGI.

dpkg(1), dpkg-www(8).

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dpkg-www [-s|--stdout] [-h|--hosthost] [query]