On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 10:41:14AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 08:33:11AM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> > my:
> > deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib
> >
> > should be added of <non-free>?
> > As it is, it does not find nvidia, of course. Once modified as said, shoud the
> > sources.list be left as modified or it is safer to delete <non-free>? Whath
> > believed is that <non-free> does not exist for source packages.
> contrib has no purpose without non-free (since contrib is free stuff
> that doesn't work without some non-free package).
Some of the packages in contrib fetch or use non-free software from
non-Debian-packaged sources. Therefore, contrib can be useful without
the Debian hosted non-free repository.
$ apt-cache policy flashplugin-nonfree
flashplugin-nonfree:
Installed: 7.0.63.7
Candidate: 7.0.63.7
Version table:
*** 7.0.63.7 0
500 http://ftp.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
$ apt-cache show flashplugin-nonfree | grep Depends
Depends: debconf | debconf-2.0, gsfonts-x11, wget
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Rob
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