How To Install flpsed on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install flpsed in Fedora 36. flpsed is WYSIWYG pseudo PostScript editor

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install flpsed on Fedora 36.

What is flpsed

Flpsed is a WYSIWYG pseudo PostScript editor. “Pseudo”, because you can’t remove or modify existing elements of a document. Flpsed lets you add arbitrary text lines to existing PostScript 1 documents. Added lines can later be reedited with flpsed. Using pdftops, which is part of xpdf, one can convert PDF documents to PostScript and also add text to them. flpsed is useful for filling in forms, adding notes etc.

We can use yum or dnf to install flpsed on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install flpsed.

Install flpsed on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install flpsed using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install flpsed

Install flpsed on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install flpsed using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install flpsed

How To Uninstall flpsed on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the flpsed package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove flpsed

flpsed Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/flpsed
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/17
/usr/lib/.build-id/17/7c958a61dadfb590ac1cb24201cd8d83865dea
/usr/share/applications/flpsed.desktop
/usr/share/doc/flpsed
/usr/share/doc/flpsed/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/flpsed/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/flpsed/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/flpsed/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/flpsed/README
/usr/share/licenses/flpsed
/usr/share/licenses/flpsed/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/flpsed.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install flpsed on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).