[PLUG] Slackware at the Clinic

[Bob Vinisky]

> On Dec 17, 2018, at 8:20 AM, Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:
> 
> On 12/17/18 8:17 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>> On Mon, 17 Dec 2018, Dick Steffens wrote:
>> 
>>> Ed told me about pepperflash in regards to chromium. I'll give it a try
>>> and see how it goes. Do I need to remove the flashplayer plugin I
>>> installed yesterday? If so, how is that done?
>> 
>> Dick,
>> 
>>   I've had both installed, but removed flashplayer and have not noticed that
>> it's gone.
>> 
>>   To learn the installed version of a package (or if it's installed at all),
>> as root, use the command
>> 
>> # /var/log/packages | grep flashplayer
>> 
>> will tell you the version. Then,
>> 
>> # removepkg flashplayer-<version>
>> 
>> will remove it.
> 
> Thanks!
> 

You might want to give pkgtool a look. It is a curses front-end for Patrick’s suite of package maintenance tols. It will view, install, remove packages and more, complete with a guy for your desktop <grin>

Bob

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