xOr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Ooh, sorry. I've been told debian wouldn't supply it because it is not
> free software. Apparently my information was incorrect.
Your information is partly correct. A default Debian install would not
install xv, as it is non-free. However, during the install, Debina
kindly asks you if you would like to install some non-free software as
well, and if you do, you have the option of installing xv as well.
While Debian differentiates between free and non-free packages, this
does, however, not mean that non-free software is not available for for
Debian.
apt-get will, depending on your /etc/apt/source.list, happily install
whatever it finds, free or non-free.
Also, you could still download the tarball and compile it yourself, if
you can't find the debian-package.
-Jan
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Jan Schaumann
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