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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