Re: Find installed contrib and non-free packages

[Andrew Vaughan <ajv-lists@netspace.net.au>]

On Thursday 12 June 2008 20:27, Vladislav Kurz wrote:
> On Thursday 12 of June 2008, Martin Bartenberger wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > just a few days ago I've read at
> > http://www.debian.org/security/faq.en.html#contrib that contrib and
> > non-free packages are not supported by the Debian security team.
> >
> > Now I want to find out which contrib and non-free packages are
> > installed on my servers. Is there any special command or script for
> > this or do I have to write one?
>
> Hi, I use this method:
>
> 1. remove contrib and non-free from /etc/apt/sources.list
> 2. run dselect (update, select) and you will see all contrib and non-free
> packages as obsolete/local packages.
>
> Maybe aptitude will do the same, but I don't use it  ;-)
It does.

If contrib and non-free are still in your sources.list then

$ aptitude search "~i(~scontrib|~snon-free)"

should list all installed packages from contrib and non-free.

Andrew