[Solved]open chm and 7z files in Kubuntu 8.10

[prakreet]

I am using Kubuntu 8.10 with KDE 4.1. But I can't open 7z and chm files. KDE guys say that okular can open chm files. The 7z format is under an lgpl license. Then why can't I open them by default in Kubuntu. What is wrong here. Anyway thanks in advance guys.

[Snowhog]

Re: open chm and 7z files in Kubuntu 8.10

You can install the p7zip-full package through Adept Manager or from a console with:

sudo apt-get install p7zip-full

Didn't find anything in Synaptic when searching on chm that had anything to do with compressed files.

[Rog131]

Re: open chm and 7z files in Kubuntu 8.10

Chm:

Maybe this: kchmviewer 4.0beta3
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show...?content=25125

Depends on: KDE 4.x

Description:
KchmViewer is a chm (MS HTML help file format) viewer, written in C++. Unlike most existing CHM viewers for Unix, it uses Trolltech Qt widget library, and does not depend on KDE or Gnome. However, it may be compiled with full KDE support, including KDE widgets and KIO/KHTML.

The main advantage of KchmViewer is non-English language support. Unlike others, KchmViewer in most cases correctly detects help file encoding, correctly shows tables of context of Russian, Korean, Chinese and Japanese help files, and correctly searches in non-English help files (search for MBCS languages - ja/ko/ch is still in progress).

KchmViewer is written by George Yunaev, and is licensed under GNU GPL license.

Repositories have: Package: kchmviewer (3.1.2-0ubuntu2)


I have not tested this (maybe later).

[kubicle]

Re: open chm and 7z files in Kubuntu 8.10

Have you installed 'okular-extra-backends' package?

Package info:

additional document format support for okular
These plugins allow Okular to view additional document formats:
* Microsoft Compiled HTML Help (CHM)
* Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
* DjVu scanned page format

This package is part of the KDE 4 graphics module.

[prakreet]

Re: open chm and 7z files in Kubuntu 8.10

Thanks guys. I installed kchmviewer and that problem is solved.