--- title: Install UwView on Linux | Snap Store description: Get the latest version of UwView for Linux - Open and search huge text and log files — a GUI and the uvf command url: https://snapcraft.io/uwview --- # UwView [Yuuji Maruyama (amru195704)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/amru195704 "View all snaps from Yuuji Maruyama (amru195704)") * [Yuuji Maruyama (amru195704)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/amru195704 "View all snaps from Yuuji Maruyama (amru195704)") * [Development](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=development) * [Utilities](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=utilities) latest/stable 1.9.1 Install latest/stable of UwView --- **Install using the command line** ``` sudo snap install uwview ``` Don't have snapd? [Get set up for snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd). --- ### Package name * uwview --- ### License * Proprietary --- ### Last updated * 21 October 2026 - latest/stable * 21 October 2026 - latest/edge --- ### Websites * [uvp.y42u.net](https://uvp.y42u.net/en/about-en/ "https://uvp.y42u.net/en/about-en/") * [www.youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/@uwviewapp "https://www.youtube.com/@uwviewapp") * [alternativeto.net](https://alternativeto.net/software/uwview/ "https://alternativeto.net/software/uwview/") * [uvp.y42u.net](https://uvp.y42u.net/en/benchmarks-en/ "https://uvp.y42u.net/en/benchmarks-en/") --- ### Contact * [github.com/amru195704/UwView/issues](https://github.com/amru195704/UwView/issues "https://github.com/amru195704/UwView/issues") --- ### Donations * [github.com/sponsors/amru195704](https://github.com/sponsors/amru195704 "https://github.com/sponsors/amru195704") --- ### Source code * [github.com/amru195704/UwView](https://github.com/amru195704/UwView "https://github.com/amru195704/UwView") --- ### Report a bug * [github.com/amru195704/UwView/issues](https://github.com/amru195704/UwView/issues "https://github.com/amru195704/UwView/issues") --- ##### Report a Snap Store violation * [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/uwview#report-snap-modal) --- * [Description](https://snapcraft.io/uwview#tab-description) * [Security](https://snapcraft.io/uwview#tab-security) #### Open and search huge text and log files — a GUI and the uvf command UwView is a viewer and search tool for huge text and log files, with a GUI and a command line (uvf) that share one engine. * Open a file and scroll to the end at once. The file is never loaded into memory; only the visible lines are drawn. Verified up to 258 GB / 4.5 billion lines in a single file. * uvf searches many files in one run, plain text and seven compressed formats mixed (gz, bz2, xz, lzma, zst, lz4, br), with no external commands. Add -open and the hits appear in the window as file-number:line; double-click to read around a hit. * Search the text inside Word, Excel and PDF files (.docx, .xlsx, .pdf) too, with uvf or in the window. The text is extracted for reading and searching; the original files are not changed * Encoding auto-detection (UTF-8, Shift\_JIS, EUC-JP, UTF-16), bookmarks remembered per file, keyboard shortcuts, real-time tail. **Setup after install (once)** Use the command as `uvf`: ``` sudo snap alias uwview.uvf uvf ``` Read files on USB drives and other removable media (/media, /mnt): ``` sudo snap connect uwview:removable-media ``` Check: `uvf --version` shows the version. Without the alias, run the command as `uwview.uvf`. To undo the alias: `sudo snap unalias uvf`. **Examples** ``` uvf 'logs/**/*.log' ERROR uvf 'logs/*.gz' ERROR -open ``` Quote file patterns so that uvf, not the shell, expands them. `uwview` opens the GUI. **Where the snap can read** Files in your home folder, and removable media after the connect command above. Files elsewhere, such as /var/log, are not reachable from the snap; copy them under your home folder first. Free for personal and internal company use under the PolyForm Internal Use License 1.0.0. Source: --- ## Install UwView 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/uwview/arch) [### CentOS](https://snapcraft.io/install/uwview/centos) [### Debian](https://snapcraft.io/install/uwview/debian) [### elementary OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/uwview/elementary) [### Fedora](https://snapcraft.io/install/uwview/fedora) [### KDE Neon](https://snapcraft.io/install/uwview/kde-neon) [### Kubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/uwview/kubuntu) [### Manjaro](https://snapcraft.io/install/uwview/manjaro) [### Pop!\_OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/uwview/pop) [### openSUSE](https://snapcraft.io/install/uwview/opensuse) [### Red Hat Enterprise Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/uwview/rhel) [### Ubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/uwview/ubuntu) [### Raspberry Pi](https://snapcraft.io/install/uwview/raspbian)