On a Debian and Ubuntu systems, there is a file called /var/lib/dpkg/status that holds information about software packages that the system knows about. This is a program that exposes some key information about packages in the file via an HTML interface.
Application is made with bottle framework and is served by a waitress WSGI server.
Hosted to http://104.248.35.146/
If you want to install and try this on your own machine, clone the repo
$ git clone https://github.com/rottabonus/bottle-package-viewer.git
Then go to repository and create virtual env
$ cd bottle-package-viewer
$ mkdir venv
$ virtualenv --no-site-packages venv
Now you can activate virtual environment
$ source venv/bin/activate
Or if you're using Windows, in project dir create and activate environment with
$ virtualenv venv
$ drive:\Users\'Username'\bottle-package-viewer\venv\Scripts\activate.bat
(also remember to deactivate later, just type deactivate)
Now you have to install two dependencies
$ pip install bottle
$ pip install waitress
And run program
$ python app.py