Re: wheezy install missing contrib and non-free

[Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com>]

Thanks for the replies. 

I may not actually need any additional packages from contrib or non-free.  But I hope I am not missing anything like proprietary hardware drivers, or add-ins required to play proprietary media formats, for example.

I did try to install in expert text mode first, but when it asked which kernel should be installed, I decided to let the install program decide that, so I re-did the install using the default text install mode. 

And as for the freeness of Debian: that's why I am using it.  I strongly support Debian, EFF, RMS, etc. 

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> wrote:

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?