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by dredmorbius 1038 days ago
On Debian, install the dwww package (<https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/dwww>), and point your browser at <https://localhost/dwww/>.

What you'll find is both a set of pages & hierarchy of documentation as well as search (via swish++) through that space. And yes, there is an absolute trove of information available:

- Manpages

- Info pages

- Default package information

- Supplementary package documents, if installed

- HOWTOs from the Linux Documentation Project.

- Debian-specific documentation (installation, administration, security, policy, and other manuals)

- RFCs (divided into several groups, for manageability / relevance)

- Resources such as the Linux Gazette

There's also a commandline utility, dwww, which will invoke your browser of choice. Point that at a terminal-based browser (w3m, lynx, links, elinks, etc.) and you can quickly scan through docs from your terminal.