How to view CHM (Microsoft Compiled HTML Help) files in Ubuntu

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

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

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

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

Thanks!

thank you!
xchm is working.
now I can use chm files in ubuntu.

Firstly, thank you for this extremely handy blog. I frequently find useful/helpful little tips and notes here, both for myself, and for sharing with Ubuntu “newbies”. 😉

I have used, and on occasion still do use kchmviewer under KDE and it does the job quite well, however, one other nifty option possibly worth mentioning here is the ‘archmage’ package (found in the Universe repositories on Ubuntu, under the Utilities category, last I checked) which comes with a couple of .chm dumping/extraction tools, but it also happens to provide a couple of nice options to conveniently serve your .chm files (via Apache mod_chm or standalone) directly to any web browser you happen to prefer.

That’s my two cents… I hope it helps someone, somewhere, sometime… 😉

Thanks for this useful and efficient post.
I had the intuition to choose kchmviewer and… yay it worked right on!
Just typed the suggested command :
> sudo aptitude install kchmviewer
and that’s it!
Maybe one minor bug but I don’t know if it’s os related or kviewer’s:
if you try to click on “open with” (right click context) the chm file the first time after you move the file to a more apropiated place than the one you dowloaded it to (my case), then choose the kchmviewer program from the suggested list, it will fail reading the contents, it reads the tree structure though. My suggested fix: open kchmviewer first then use “Open…” from the “file” menu and navigate to your chm file location. I know it’s a minor stuff, but I thought someone would think kchmviewer is unable to read the file whereas it does the job perfectly!

One last note :
If you don’t like keep microtheft formats on your machine, you can use the wonderful kchmviewer export function (“file”->”Extract CHM contents”), create a new folder through the dialog window and select that folder to throw in the complete doc in html format.
Actually, it does more than extracting, it looks like it reconstructs the original M$ CHM build environment. I was a little puzzled when i saw the tree structure but I found all the html doc under the “res” (resource I guess) folder. There’s an “index.html” file inside the “res” folder. Just launch it with your favorite browser.

My config :
-HP Pavilion dv6000 series
-2GB RAM
-Centrino Duo @1.66GHz @1.67GHz
-Ubuntu Gutsy Gibon 7.10
-Kernel 2.6.22-14-generic

cheers