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Seyed Mohammad
Asked: 2014-05-26 03:31:06 +0800 CST

What happened to ChmSee in 14.04?

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I've been a happy user of ChmSee since the awesome 10.10 to view and read my CHM ebooks. Today I tried to install chmsee on my Xubuntu machine, but both apt-get and the Software Center were unable to find the package!

I searched for the package and shockingly it seems that ChmSee is no longer available as of Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty.

Is this true? Why would anyone want to remove such a perfectly usable and functional application?

UPDATE: Since the chmsee package is long gone from the official repos of 14.04-Trusty, what matters more is how can a user of 14.04 install and have this awesome application back.

So I'm updating the question to also ask for a nice way to install and use chmsee on Ubuntu-14.04 Trusty. From 'nice' I mean a way with very few effort and least harm to the system. I don't like adding entire new repositories just to install one app!

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5 Answers

  1. Because it is not mantained anymore.
    From its official webpage:

    News
    2013-08-25: Stop maintain.

    I think that if you want to go in and developing/mantaining it no one will stop you! :D

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  2. Best Answer

    Why ChmSee was removed from 14.04 Trusty-Tahr?

    As first answered by dadexix86, it's because ChmSee is not maintained anymore by the upstream.

    How to install and use ChmSee on 14.04 the nice way?

    Several other people have tried to answer this using PPA and adding new repositories. But these are not methods I consider nice! Feel free to disagree with me but this is how I personally feel fit.

    The method of my preference is as follows:

    1. Go to the Ubuntu-packages page on chmsee for Saucy.
    2. At the botton of the page, download the proper .deb package for your system.

    3. The list of dependencies for this package is also listed in that page. Install them using the following command (though, all of them were already installed on my system):

      sudo apt-get install libc6 libchm1 libgcrypt11 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libglib2.0-0 libgtk2.0-0 libpango1.0-0 libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 libxml2

    4. Install the package:

      for 32-bit systems: 

      sudo dpkg -i chmsee_1.3.0-2ubuntu2_i386.deb

      for 64-bit systems: 

      sudo dpkg -i chmsee_1.3.0-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb

    I have tested this on my own 14.04 machine and I can confirm it works.

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  3. After trying, here is a little summary of alternative chm reader:

    xchm

    Designed for xice, but also good for gnome/kde. This seems to be the simplest & best choice for ubuntu 14.04+.

    install: sudo apt-get install xchm

    kchmviewer

    Design for kde, but also could use on gnome.

    install: sudo apt-get install kchmviewer

    Tip: on gnome, the installation need install kde related package (e.g kde-runtime), thus need download a lot (around 60Mb), and take a lot disk space (around 140Mb).

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  4. You can download ChmSee Run the following code:

    wget -q -O - http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu trusty-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list'

    and then install it using:

    sudo apt-get install chmsee
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  5. ChmSee can be installed in 14.04 with the Launchpad Repository ppa:dnjl/ppa. Here there is the version 2.0.2.

    When Chmsee was stopped in 2013.08.25 the last version was 2.0.2

    ** Even though that repository tells it is precise version, that 2.0.2 version is the latest.

    sudo add-apt repository ppa:dnjl/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install chmsee

    Also see What are PPAs, how do I use them, and are they safe?

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