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What happened to ChmSee in 14.04?

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I've been a happy user of ChmSee since the awesome 10.10 to view and read my CHM ebooks. Today I tried to install chmsee on my Xubuntu machine, but both apt-get and the Software Center were unable to find the package!

I searched for the package and shockingly it seems that ChmSee is no longer available as of Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty.

Is this true? Why would anyone want to remove such a perfectly usable and functional application?

UPDATE: Since the chmsee package is long gone from the official repos of 14.04-Trusty, what matters more is how can a user of 14.04 install and have this awesome application back.

So I'm updating the question to also ask for a nice way to install and use chmsee on Ubuntu-14.04 Trusty. From 'nice' I mean a way with very few effort and least harm to the system. I don't like adding entire new repositories just to install one app!

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answered 2 Years ago zombieptu · Accepted Answer

Why ChmSee was removed from 14.04 Trusty-Tahr?

As first answered by dadexix86, it's because ChmSee is not maintained anymore by the upstream.

How to install and use ChmSee on 14.04 the nice way?

Several other people have tried to answer this using PPA and adding new repositories. But these are not methods I consider nice! Feel free to disagree with me but this is how I personally feel fit.

The method of my preference is as follows:

Go to the Ubuntu-packages page on chmsee for Saucy.

At the botton of the page, download the proper .deb package for your system.

The list of dependencies for this package is also listed in that page. Install them using the following command (though, all of them were already installed on my system):

sudo apt-get install libc6 libchm1 libgcrypt11 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libglib2.0-0 libgtk2.0-0 libpango1.0-0 libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 libxml2

Install the package:

for 32-bit systems:

sudo dpkg -i chmsee_1.3.0-2ubuntu2_i386.deb

for 64-bit systems:

sudo dpkg -i chmsee_1.3.0-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb

I have tested this on my own 14.04 machine and I can confirm it works.