From the answers I got, I took that contrib in itself is free software. Only
I must verify that what I install is free software. Not to limit what I can
install, I kept contrib.
I can delete contrib.
There are actually some cases of completely libre software that depends on
proprietary data, such as uqm and assaultcube. But these packages seem to be
perpetually out-of-date, anyway (both of the packages I mentioned are out of
date, one by 5 years and the other by 8 years), so why use
As far as I know contrib is like a repo of free packages that do absolutely
nothing but install (or otherwise work with) proprietary software like Adobe
Flash.
Basically the only uses of the de jure libre packages in contrib is with
nonfree software (not all of which packages over at
Thank you.
I have read the debian wiki on sources.list and about nano editing the file.
I installed debian using debian 8 dvd 1 64bit iso. It turns out, that the
sources.list gets config for cd updating only.
It looks like this
#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.0.0 _Jessie_ - Official
hi tonlee!
REMEMBER: only main. NO contrib and ABSOLUTELY NOT non-free.
This page will help you understand how to set your sources.list properly -
https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList
I can already tell you to set it like this (no need for backports unless you
want to mix stable components
Why didn't ypou remove contrib (I mean, I'm pretty sure you can still install
Adobe flash from there, can't you?)
I promise you: unless you're planning on installing proprietary software on
your machine, enabling contrib has absolutely no benefit.
Thanks.
I made this sources.list file
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib
#
I thought I was making my self clear..
NO contrib!!!
REMOVE contrib from all the lines!
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Everything in the 2nd paragraph can be done in trisquel though.
Avoid contrib and nonfree (and perhaps don't install Chromium from the main
part of the repo) and expect to be as fully free as you'll be on Trisquel.
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Basically Main and Contrib are free-repositories :)
El 25/05/15 a las 13:36, svh...@gmail.com escribió:
debian 8 has 3 repositories. Main, contrib and non free? If you
want your computer to be free software, you can only install main?
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The issue with VirtualBox is not an installer (Debian takes care of
installation anyway). It's that the BIOS has a nonfree build dependency.
If the goals is FSF libre, then only use main. As onpon pointed out contrib
contains a mixture of free and non-free. Virtualbox is an example, it is
free, but uses a non-free installer. You could use 4.1 or older and have a
libre version as well.
You could also, review the license of
Not contrib
Just use main. contrib contains software that's libre, but typically useless
without stuff from non-free, or otherwise intended for use with proprietary
programs.
tonlee - Debian by default is 100% free software. If you want to screw it up
you have to manually modify /etc/apt/sources.list to add contrib and
non-free. Both contrib and non-free are full of non-free shajt.
Another way to ruin Debian is to install some non free app external to Debian
or
debian 8 has 3 repositories. Main, contrib and non free?
If you want your computer to be free software, you can only install main?
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