Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> $ dpkg -l | grep chm
>
> ii kchmviewer 3.1-1 CHM viewer for KDE
> ii libchm-bin 2:0.39-5 Transition package for
> ii libchm-dev 2:0.39-5 library for dealing with
> ii libchm1 2:0.39-5 library for dealing with
> rc libktnef1 4:3.5.7-4 Library for handling KTNEF
> ii xchm 2:1.13-6 Compiled HTML Help (CHM)
Thanks!
Try to upgrade libchm-bin, libchm-dev and libchm1 to 0.39-6 version and
let me know if it makes difference.
> I was updating my system as root in an xterm. Absent mindedly, I opened
> xchm from that terminal, and it worked. I was able to view the chm (not the
> source code).
>
> Went back to a different xterm (my usual user) and I still could only see
> the html source in xchm.
Interesting. Let me check with root.
> First thing I did was to move ~/.xchm to ~/dot-xchm. Didn't help.
Its config file, so will not make much difference.
> Next thing I did was to see if it worked for my girlfriend's account on this
> machine. It did.
Check which libchm is there too.
> So the only account on this machine that xchm works for is my main user
> account. This is the only account on the machine that has *ever* used xchm
> in the past. I wouldn't normally use xchm as root, and my girlfriend
> doesn't even know what a chm file is.
Please don't use xchm as root. Its not recommended to use root for
normal day to day activities.
> Yet I removed ~/.xchm. I'm at a loss. Any ideas?
Let me check in more depth.
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