How to View Windows CHM Files on Linux

by SathiyaMoorthy

Question: Someone sent me a *.chm file. I don’t have windows machine. Is it possible to view a *.chm file on a Linux system.?

Answer: Use kchmviewer to view chm files as explained below.

First, verify whether you already have the kchmviewer command on your system.

# whereis kchmviewer
kchmviewer: /usr/bin/kchmviewer

Install kchmviewer to view chm files on Fedora

If you don’t have kchmviewer, install it as shown below.

# yum install kchmviewer

Install kchmviewer to view chm files on Debian and Ubuntu

$ sudo apt-get install kchmviewer

View a chm file using kchmviewer

$ kchmviewer filename.chm

{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }

1 namus June 24, 2010 at 1:06 am

yum install gnochm

2 Llame March 1, 2012 at 5:02 pm

SUSE:

zypper install kchmviewer

or perhaps even

zypper install gnochm

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