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 -- Rob
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