RE: wheezy install missing contrib and non-free

["Mark Allums" <mark@allums.com>]

Hello.  
I did a fresh install of Debian 7.0.0 (Wheezy), using the debian-7.0.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso.  

In the past , during the install process, it would ask if the user wanted to include the contrib and non-free repositiories.  Not this time.  The install went okay, but only included packages from the main repository.  

If I manually added "contrib" and non-free" to /etc/apt/sources.list, and did apt-get update, then apt-get upgrade, would that add the missing contrib and non-free stuff?  And would that mess up the already installed system?


Yes, but no, and probably not.  Yes the non-dfsg stuff would become available, no it would not automatically install anything, you will have to add those yourself, and it would not mess up anything, since nothing changes except some packages would become installable using apt-get that weren't available before.