I noted in Slackware Diary that I had installed Free42 under Slackware. As I wrote in 2006 I fell in love with HP calculators and their RPN notation back in the 1970s, and still find the conventional algebraic notation rather awkward. I no longer carry a physical calulator, but I have Free42 installed on my phone and my tablet, and on my Windows systems. Now I also have it on Slackware. So I circled back to see if I could install in on Ubuntu.

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Following up from last time:

gmcdavid@Tyrone:~$ flatpak uninstall com.visualstudio.code
gmcdavid@Tyrone:~$ flatpak uninstall com.visualstudio.code-oss

I was prompted for the root password. I may come back to Flatpak on Slackware, but for now on to some other installations….

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