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Microsoft Compiled HTML Help is a proprietary format for online help files, developed by Microsoft and first released in 1997 as a successor to the Microsoft WinHelp format.

You can use either kchmviewer or gnochm or xchm.

kchmviewer from KDE

kchmviewer is a CHM (Winhelp) files viewer written in Qt/ KDE. It can be build as a stand-alone Qt-based application or a KDE application. The main point is compatibility with non-English CHM files, including most international character sets. It has the features set of standard viewer: search (including non-English CHMs), bookmarking, font size changing, index/content browsing, codepage support, and more.

Install kchmviewer Using the following command

sudo aptitude install kchmviewer

gnochm from Gnome

GnoCHM is a CHM file viewer for GNOME. It is implemented in Python, using the PyCHM bindings for chmlib.

Install gnochm Using the following command

sudo aptitude install gnochm

xchm

xCHM is a cross-platform GUI front-end to chmlib, with borrowed bits from Pabs’ chmdeco project.
Originally written for UNIX systems (Linux, *BSD, Solaris), xCHM has been since ported to Mac OS X and Windows.

xCHM can show the content tree if one is available, print pages, change font face and size, remember bookmarks, display a searchable index, and search for words in the current page and the whole book.

Install gnochm Using the following command

sudo aptitude install xchm

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10 Comments to “How to view CHM (Microsoft Compiled HTML Help) files in Ubuntu”

  1. echza says:

    I installed “gnochm from Gnome” and it works like a charm !!! Thanks for this post…

    Greetingz for Turkey!!!

  2. Steve Rush says:

    I’ve tried all three, and only xchm works in my Mint Linux / Compaq R3010 environment.

  3. DingDong says:

    I’ve just installed gnochm ..and it works very well … Thank you Echza

  4. Amri says:

    I’ve installed all those three. only gnochm is work for my ubuntu linux. thanks for sharing

  5. caglar says:

    I just wondering, Is there any possible font setting in hidden directory for this application.Because the default font size is too small.

    Thank u.

  6. Tharindu says:

    Thanks a lot it works well thanks again ……………………………

  7. I tried gnochm on my Acer Aspire One, but the font was too small. I could enlarge it, but the scrollbar would not adjust to accommodate the larger content and I could not see it all.

    xchm, however, works great right out of the box and I didn’t even have to mess with the fonts.

  8. karthik says:

    awesome
    all three i tried..
    it worked..
    thank you for suggestion

  9. Eli says:

    Thanks for this, gnochm works great!

  10. f1freak says:

    Thanks!

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