How To Install and Uninstall
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On Windows
Install
- Visit http://pluckeye.net/ .
- Click the big "Download" button.
- In Firefox, hit Ctrl-Shift-Y to view downloads.
- Double click on the file you just downloaded (for example, pluckeye-windows-0.38.0.exe) to install Pluckeye.
- Close all instances of Firefox and Chrome.
- Click "Next" in the installation wizard as necessary to install.
- Restart your browsers. You should see a button with the Pluckeye 'P' on it when Firefox or Chrome restarts.
Uninstall
- Close all Firefox and Chrome windows.
- Open Add/Remove Programs in Windows. In various versions of Windows:
- Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs (Windows XP)
- Control Panel > Programs and Features (Vista and Windows 7)
- Start button > type "uninstall", select "Uninstall a Program" (Windows 8 - 10)
- Double click the entry for Pluckeye.
On Mac OS X
Install
In Firefox or Chrome:
- Visit http://pluckeye.net/ .
- Click the big "Download" button.
- Click Save File.
- Click the download arrow, and click on the downloaded file (e.g., pluckeye-macosx-0.40.1.pkg).
- Follow the installation wizard prompts.
- Restart your browsers.
Uninstall
In Firefox or Chrome:
- Click the Pluckeye button.
- Click "Settings".
- On the Settings page, set the delay to 0.
- Wait until the delay expires.
- Click "Uninstall".
Alternatively, at a terminal prompt:
pluck set "delay 0" sleep $(pluck export | perl -lne 'print $1 if /Delay (\d+) seconds/') pluck export | grep -i delay pluck uninstall
On Linux
Install
In Firefox or Chrome:
- Visit http://pluckeye.net/ .
- Click the big "Download" button.
- Save File, and note file name for later (e.g., pluckeye-linux-0.36.1.tar.gz)
In linux (ubuntu, lubuntu, etc.)
- Open a terminal.
In the terminal:
cd /tmp rm -f ./pluckeye*.installer for tarball in $HOME/Downloads/pluckeye*.tar.gz; do echo $tarball; done tar xf $tarball sudo ./pluckeye*.installer
Here is an example terminal session in which jon installs pluckeye-0.36.1 on his Ubuntu computer named theodore.
jon@theodore:~$ cd /tmp jon@theodore:/tmp$ rm -f ./pluckeye*.installer jon@theodore:/tmp$ for tarball in $HOME/Downloads/pluckeye*.tar.gz; do echo $tarball; done /home/jon/Downloads/pluckeye-linux-0.36.1.tar.gz jon@theodore:/tmp$ tar xf $tarball jon@theodore:/tmp$ sudo ./pluckeye*.installer [sudo] password for jon: Congratulations, you've installed! Type 'pluck' for help. To start using pluckeye, restart currently running browsers. See http://www.pluckeye.net/installed.html?pluckeye-linux-0.36.1-x86 for the latest news on this version.
- Restart your browsers.
Uninstall
- Open a terminal.
In the terminal:
First set the delay to 0
pluck set "delay 0"
Once the delay becomes 0, then uninstall.
pluck export | grep -i delay pluck uninstall