SOLVED, was: removing wslview from Ubuntu-only computers?

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 12:33 PM Marco Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:
>
> To make a long story short...
>
> I got tired of waiting, and typed "sudo apt remove wslu", the package
> that contains wslview.
>
> Now Obsidian opens with LibreOffice and evince the .odt or .pdf files
> as it should, without bad side effects on the rest of the system,
> AFAICT.
>
> If anybody has a clue as to what happened, and why, I'd still like to
> know, of course. Frankly, I do not know when or how wslview entered my
> system, as I fail to see any way I may use it...

    $ aptitude why wslu
    i   gimp-help-en Depends  gimp-helpbrowser | www-browser
    p   wslu         Provides www-browser

Jeff