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Olivier Lalonde
Asked: 2010-10-19 21:25:00 +0800 CST

How to view CHM files?

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How to view CHM files in Ubuntu?

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  1. xChm Viewer Install xchm

    Install the xChm Viewer for viewing CHM files:

    sudo apt-get install xchm

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  2. Best Answer

    chmsee is no longer available in Ubuntu, as it is no longer being maintained. Here is the announcement on the project site:

    Stop maintain

    ChmSee is not being developed anymore.

    I haven't read CHM documents more than a year, new and update IT books are pdfs or epubs, so it's right time to end this chm viewer.

    chmsee Install chmsee

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    https://code.google.com/p/chmsee/

    sudo apt-get install chmsee
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  3. apt-cache --names-only search chm

    gives several results.

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  4. kchmViewer Install kchmviewer

    The main advantage of kchmviewer is the best support for non-English languages. Unlike other viewers, kchmviewer in most cases is able to correctly detect the chm file encoding and show it. It correctly shows the index and table of context in Russian, Spanish, Romanian, Korean, Chinese and Arabic help files, and with new search engine is able to search in any chm file no matter what language it is written.

    kchmviewer

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  5. I like the reader that comes with wine! (hh.exe?)

    Open hh.exe that comes with wine and browse for your CHM file from it, or supply it as a command line argument:

    $ wine /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/wine-development/fakedlls/hh.exe WindowsHalp.chm

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  6. Use browser extensions

    What could be better than a web-browser to view web-pages?

    CHMFox is an excellent CHM file reader. It is much better than all the third party programs that others are suggesting, which are mostly lacking many web-browser capabilities that Firefox and alike have.

    I initially suggested the CHM reader extension for Firefox, but it isn't actively maintained anymore.

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  7. As an alternative, since the CHM format is not very popular you can convert it to PDF using chm2pdf:

    sudo apt-get install chm2pdf
chm2pdf --webpage your.chm

    This will produce a your.pdf file. As an alternative you can use the --book or --continuous options instead of --webpage; more info here http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-convert-chm-files-into-pdf-files-in-ubuntu.html

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  8. Also a plugin called CHM Reader exists for Firefox.
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3235/

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  9. extract_chmLib does a very good job of converting chm (compiled html) files into htm format. It is in the Ubuntu repository in the package libchm-bin.

    extract_chmLib maintains the full functionality of the original.. However, I did need to rename files to lowercase, for one .chm (becaue chm is a Windows format which is not case-sensitive like Linux), but the overall result is ideal for me...

    Here are a couple of links...

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  10. In addition to the Firefox extension(s), there's a neat Chrome app called Chumium that does the job.

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