How To Install WvWare?

How To Install WvWare?

wvWare

Programs for accessing Microsoft Word documents

Maintainer: Daniel Walrond



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Install wvWare

  • Debian apt-get install wv Click to copy
  • Ubuntu apt-get install wv Click to copy
  • Alpine OS apk add wv Click to copy
  • Arch Linux pacman -S wv Click to copy
  • Kali Linux apt-get install wv Click to copy
  • Fedora dnf install wv Click to copy
  • Raspbian apt-get install wv Click to copy
  • macOS brew install wv Click to copy

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Programs for accessing Microsoft Word documents

wvWare (previously known as mswordview) is a library that allows access to Microsoft Word files. It can load and parse the Word 2000, Word 97, Word 95, and Word 6 file formats. (Work is underway to support reading earlier formats as well: Word 2 documents are converted to plain text.) This package provides the following programs: * wvWare: Converts to HTML and LaTeX. It's used by a small army of helper scripts able to preview Word documents and convert them to various other formats, like PostScript, PDF, DVI, etc. * wvRTF: Converts to Microsoft's Rich Text Format. * wvSummary: Displays the summary information stream of all OLE2 files, i.e. Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Access, etc. * wvVersion: Outputs the version of the Word format a document is stored in. Note that conversion to DVI, PostScript, or PDF requires the 'texlive' package; PDF conversion also requires Ghostscript. Having ELinks, Links, or Lynx will greatly improve the plain text output. ImageMagick may help with the quality of images. If you wish to preview Word documents from the comfort of your mail reader, install a PostScript viewer like gv.

To install the latest version of wvWare in your favorite operating system just copy the wvWare installation command from above and paste it into terminal. It will download and install the latest version of wvWare 2026 package in your OS.