>> Da: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> Data: 11/09/2011 18.17 >> Ogg: [Lubuntu-desktop] Asking: How to read 'chm' and 'pdb'
>> I'm a newbie and I really love my new lubuntu. But I have some >> problems here. I can't open my 'chm' and 'pdb' files. Is there any >> I can do? ... Yes, these files are probably readable in Lubuntu. There are things you can do to help us find out exactly what they are. Then, we can help you to install and try out some programs that will work with them. On 09/11/2011 10:18 AM, Phill Whiteside wrote: > pdb seems to be the file extension used by PDA's.. ... The ".pdb" extension is also used by some versions of Microsoft Visual C/C++ as a "Program Database". In general, across multiple platfrorms, an extension .xyz does not uniquely identify a file type, even in Windows it may not uniquely identify a filetype. Fortunately (!), this is Linux, not Windows. In Linux, we do not need to guess what is in a file based on its file extension. Instead, we can find out what kind of file it is, based on its contents. The simple little utility for doing this is called file So, in LXTerminal, please do cd /wherever/the/files/are # use the real path for your files! file *.chm *.pdb and tell us exactly what the file command outputs. That output will indicate clearly and specifically what the files really are. We will "know" whether a .pdb file is a PalmOS database, or an MSVC C/C++ program database, or something else entirely. Then, once we know what the files are, we can look at what Linux applications will read and write such files. Clear, simple, step by step, logical. No guessing needed. If we *want* to guess (for fun?): most likely, the .chm files will be something like "MS Windows HtmlHelp Data", and the .pdb files *may* be something like "DB PalmOS document", or any one of about 22 other PalmOS file types, or they really may be "MSVC program database" files. To read MS Windows HtmlHelp Data (.chm) files, you can use one of many CHM viewer or converter programs in Linux. In Lubuntu, I would start with sudo apt-get install xchm for an X-based CHm file viewer, or sudo apt-get install chmsee for a GTK-based viewer, and if you want to convert these files to HTML, try sudo apt-get install archmage Working with "PalmOS Document" files may be a little trickier, depending on exactly what kind of PalmOS file they are. One possibility is an ebook reader that can read many "interesting" PDA and ebook files, fbreader, so sudo apt-get install fbreader might be worth a try. But again, these are just *guesses* -- we need the output from that file command, to be able to help with any certainty at all about what these files truly are. Jonathan _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
