.chm file viewer

[inwin]

Recently, I decided to install and try Ubuntu 9.04. I've been using Vista for a while (big surprise) and have a few "getting started with Linux" e-books as both Adobe PDF's and Windows help files. I've read over some of the forum materials on installing and picked up on most of the basics, but it seems like every time I go to install something that will lead to the .chm viewer (currently trying to use xchm), it has more and more requirements. Beginning with xchm, that required chmlib and wxGTK. wxGTK required GTK+, which required glib, cairo, pango, and atk. glib required gettext, and while gettext seemed to require nothing else, and found no errors with the ./configure step of installation, it encountered the error

"In function 'open', inlined from 'msgdomain_list_print' at write-catalog.c:223: /usr/include/bits/fcntl2.h:51: error: call to '__open_missing_mode' declared with attribute error: open with 0_CREAT in second argument needs 3 arguments"

at the make step. Obvioiusly, past this point, make install wouldn't work either - same error. I've read over the readme files and installation instructions and they all say the same thing as TechieMoe's installation guide here: download, unzip, ./configure, make, su, make install.

I've tried a range of things, but being so new to this, I'm not exactly sure where to start aside from Google and forums. Searching for most of this stuff on Google was what continued to lead me to more potentially necessary software. So I guess my main question is, am I completely overlooking some simple way to install the original software I wanted?

[daark.child]

Hi and welcome to the forum.

You could just install xchm from the Ubuntu package repositories instead of compiling it on your own. Follow the instructions here to enable all software repositories in Synapic. Once done, search for xchm and select it for installation. Xchm and all dependencies will be automatically installed.

[inwin]

Thanks much! I figured I was overlooking something simple...

[reed9]

There's also gnochm, which looks nicer than xchm and will integrate better with GNOME on Ubuntu.

[syd05]

Hi,

If you have the Firefox Browser installed, you could simply install a CHM reader add-on without much of fuss. This adds CHM support to Firefox....

--Syd