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title: Install Universal File Viewer on Linux | Snap Store
description: Get the latest version of Universal File Viewer for Linux - Fast 6-mode
  file viewer with streamed 64 KB Hex+ASCII, EXIF, PDF & archives
url: https://snapcraft.io/universal-media-viewer
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# Universal File Viewer (universal-media-viewer)

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* [Nguyen Van Thanh (thanhnv128)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/thanhnv128 "View all snaps from Nguyen Van Thanh (thanhnv128)")
* [Utilities](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=utilities)

latest/stable 1.0.0

Install latest/stable of Universal File Viewer

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**Install using the command line**

```
sudo snap install universal-media-viewer
```

Don't have snapd? [Get set up for snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd).

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### Package name

* universal-media-viewer

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### License

* MIT

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### Last updated

* Today - latest/stable

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### Websites

* [buymeacoffee.com](https://buymeacoffee.com/thanhnv128b "https://buymeacoffee.com/thanhnv128b")

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### Contact

* [buymeacoffee.com](https://buymeacoffee.com/thanhnv128b "https://buymeacoffee.com/thanhnv128b")

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##### Report a Snap Store violation

* [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/universal-media-viewer#report-snap-modal)

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* [Description](https://snapcraft.io/universal-media-viewer#tab-description)
* [Security](https://snapcraft.io/universal-media-viewer#tab-security)

#### Fast 6-mode file viewer with streamed 64 KB Hex+ASCII, EXIF, PDF & archives

A fast multi-mode universal file viewer for Linux, serving as an
independent open-source Linux alternative to Universal Viewer.
Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by UVViewSoft.

FEATURES
• Tab 0 — 6-Mode Universal Viewer: Browse your real home or removable media
via the compact directory and file tree, then inspect any file across 6
dedicated viewing engines: [1] Text (with syntax highlighting, font zoom,
word wrap, and UTF-8 / Latin-1 / UTF-16 encoding selector), [2] Binary
(streamed 64 KB page printable view), [3] Hex+ASCII (instantaneous 64 KB
seek/read pagination for multi-megabyte binaries without full-file RAM
load), [4] Image/EXIF (QPixmap zoom, fit, 90-degree rotation, and JPEG
EXIF IFD metadata), [5] Office/PDF (PyPDF2 PDF, DOCX, XLSX, ODT, ODS, and
EML text extraction), and [6] Archive/Audio (listing and extracting .zip,
.7z, .tar\*, and .rar archives, plus MP3 ID3, FLAC, and WAV tags). Includes
a live Find Text / Hex Bytes bar streaming directly across disk chunks.
• Tab 1 — Encoding / Hex Inspector & SHA-256: Side-by-side decoded text vs
streamed 64 KB Hex+ASCII or secondary encoding comparator, BOM detection,
and streaming SHA-256, MD5, and CRC32 hash computation.
• Tab 2 — Mode Rules & Export Snippet: Configure extension-to-mode detection
rules, Hex page size, default encoding, English / Vietnamese bilingual UI,
and export text, streamed Hex+ASCII pages, or metadata tables to TXT/CSV.

SUPPORT & DONATE
• Created by Thanh Nguyen — <https://buymeacoffee.com/thanhnv128b>

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## Install Universal File Viewer on your Linux distribution

Choose your Linux distribution to get detailed installation instructions. If yours is not shown, get more details on the [installing snapd documentation](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd).

[### Arch Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/universal-media-viewer/arch)

[### CentOS](https://snapcraft.io/install/universal-media-viewer/centos)

[### Debian](https://snapcraft.io/install/universal-media-viewer/debian)

[### elementary OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/universal-media-viewer/elementary)

[### Fedora](https://snapcraft.io/install/universal-media-viewer/fedora)

[### KDE Neon](https://snapcraft.io/install/universal-media-viewer/kde-neon)

[### Kubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/universal-media-viewer/kubuntu)

[### Manjaro](https://snapcraft.io/install/universal-media-viewer/manjaro)

[### Pop!\_OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/universal-media-viewer/pop)

[### openSUSE](https://snapcraft.io/install/universal-media-viewer/opensuse)

[### Red Hat Enterprise Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/universal-media-viewer/rhel)

[### Ubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/universal-media-viewer/ubuntu)