Many of the computer books I read include a cd with a chm copy of the book. I like the ability to read these files under Ubuntu. Ubuntu does include xchm which does have a nice gtk2 interface now, but lack some of the searching feature that you get in Windows. Gnochm (http://gnochm.sourceforge.net/) has some really nice features for viewing chm files. I have made the needed .deb files for Ubuntu Breezy.
1. Get Files:
wget -c http://mikesplanet.net/deb/gnochm_0.9.6-1~breezy_all.deb
wget -c http://mikesplanet.net/deb/python-chm_0.8.2-3~breezy_i386.deb
2. Install chmlib:
sudo apt-get install chmlib
3. Install deb files:
sudo dpkg -i python-chm_0.8.2-3~breezy_i386.deb gnochm_0.9.6-1~breezy_all.deb
Please note: While compiling gnochm, Ubuntu told me that python-chm was superseded by another deb file in the Ubuntu repos, but I could not figure out which one
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GnoCHM is now included in Dapper.
[...] 5.10 – Installing GNOCHM I found some instructions at http://www.mikesplanet.net/?p=4 to setup Ubuntu so I can read CHM files. It all seemed straightforward so I dowloaded the two deb [...]