ChmSee – Best Software to Open CHM Files in Linux. ChmSee out dated? See here how to install ChmSee and review about it. CHM is a Microsoft Compiled HTML, a single file which contain many HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) pages, has index and navigation. The files are compressed and deployed in a binary format with the extension .CHM, for Compiled HTML. The format is often used for software documentation.
ChmSee – Best Software to Open CHM Files in Linux
ChmSee is a Compiled HTML Help (CHM) file viewer written in GTK+.
Features:
- Use gecko rendering engine
- Bookmarks
- Support to open multiple files at once
How to Install ChmSee – Program for Viewing CHM Files on Linux
ChmSee is not anymore available in Ubuntu repository, because it is no longer maintained. 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.
For you who need the best CHM file viewer, you can force install ChmSee 1.3 with installer file (offline install). ChmSee v1.3 needs these requirements to install:
- libc6 (>= 2.4)
- libchm1 (>= 0.40)
- libgcrypt11 (>= 1.4.5)
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0)
- libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0)
- libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.18.0)
- libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0)
- libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 (>= 1.3.10)
- libxml2 (>= 2.7.4)
- Download installer for ChmSee v1.3 x86 atau ChmSee v1.3 x64
- After file downloader, double click the file and click “Install package” button
- Wait until installation completed. Now you can open ChmSee after install by clicking Start/Menu >> Accessories >> ChmSee
ChmSee Review Best Apps to View CHM Files
There are so many linux program to open CHM file such as XChm and KChmViewer, but we recommend ChmSee because it is light weight and support arabic font. So for you who need the best software to open CHM file in linux, ChmSee is the solution! I have tested this on my own Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela machine and I can confirm it works.