How to install a CHM viewer in Fedora?

[Beginner]

Hello to all,

I want to install a viewer for Microsoft CHM files as most manuals come as chm...

I tried yum install kchm but it does not work...

I got this error while typing yum install kchm:

Added 25 new packages, deleted 24 old in 1.13 seconds
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: kchm
Nothing to do
[root@localhost linux]#

I tried also to install the rpm of KCHM but it also does not work....

I am using Fedora 4 with KDE.

Thanx and warm regards.

[daneel971]

Download and install the following:

http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/dag/dri...c4.rf.i386.rpm
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/dag/dri...86/RPMS.dries/
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/dag/dri...c4.rf.i386.rpm

The second file is optional, but better have it than not.
Open a terminal and use first

rpm -Uvh --test chmlib-0.35-1.2.fc4.rf.i386.rpm chmlib-devel-0.35-1.2.fc4.rf.i386.rpm kchmviewer-1.0-1.2.fc4.rf.i386.rpm

to see if all goes well; if no error messages show up, re-type the command as root without the "--test" option

[Beginner]

Originally Posted by daneel971

Download and install the following:

http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/dag/dri...c4.rf.i386.rpm
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/dag/dri...86/RPMS.dries/
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/dag/dri...c4.rf.i386.rpm

The second file is optional, but better have it than not.
Open a terminal and use first

rpm -Uvh --test chmlib-0.35-1.2.fc4.rf.i386.rpm chmlib-devel-0.35-1.2.fc4.rf.i386.rpm kchmviewer-1.0-1.2.fc4.rf.i386.rpm

to see if all goes well; if no error messages show up, re-type the command as root without the "--test" option

Buddy....that worked....thx a lot !!!

[cola]

I use Fedora 10
Where would i found chmviewer for fedora 10?
How to install it?
How to run/use it?

Would someone please tell?

[damagehead]

actually the package name is "kchmviewer"

first you need to do is install rpmfusion repositories (not sure if needed in this case, but good to have) using this command (as root)
$ rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/...ble.noarch.rpm \
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfr...ble.noarch.rpm
$ rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-*

then issue this command
$ yum install kchmviewer

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If you need to know what other chm viewers are available in the repositories you could issue the following command
$yum search chm
This will list all packages with the string chm in their program name and their description.

Hope this helps

Regards
~Sameer

[cola]

When i use this:
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-*

Error like this:

error: /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora: import failed.
error: /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora: import failed.

[damagehead]

ok
forget this command
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-*

and continue with the rest.

PS: yum need internet connection available to download packages from the online repositories

Regards
~Sameer

[damagehead]

kchmviewer is a really small package
anyways wou can get it from here

(32bit version)
ftp://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/linux/fedora...c10.1.i386.rpm

(64bit version)
ftp://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/linux/fedora...0.1.x86_64.rpm

Enjoy

[damagehead]

rather get it from here...
the above server see to be too slow

32bit
http://fedora.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/lin...c10.1.i386.rpm

64bit
http://fedora.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/lin...0.1.x86_64.rpm

download and install (double click)

Also Bookmark this page in case you need some more packages (i however recommend using yum, makes everything really simple)
http://fedora.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/lin...ux/updates/10/

Regards
~Sameer

[sej7278]

yum install gnochm

[damagehead]

see thats another chm file viewer

so you have the following options:
* kchmviewer
* gnochm
* xchm

[damagehead]

BTW, i just realized that okular has the ability to open chm files. but however it does not seem to work perfectly.
You can give it a try.

[cola]

Thanks.
Yes okular works for .chm file in Fedora 10.

yum install kchviewer

yum install gnochm

worked

[geezah]

for slower connections,

try to use chmsee.

yum install chmsee



regards,


geezah

[dipanchandra]

Originally Posted by cola

Thanks.
Yes okular works for .chm file in Fedora 10.

yum install kchviewer

yum install gnochm

worked

wow..... it worked for me