[Tip] How many Non-free software is on your machine ?

[Tha.Suresh]

How many Non-free software is on your machine ?

$ vrms

Tell you how many Non free software is on your machine, which package
it is and which restriction on freedom it has . require vrms package ,
vrms mean virtual Richard M. Stallman ;-)

$ vrms
The program 'vrms' is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install vrms


thasu at ubuntu:~$ vrms
             Non-free packages installed on ubuntu

skype                     Skype

             Contrib packages installed on ubuntu

flashplugin-installer     Adobe Flash Player plugin installer
nvidia-common             Find obsolete NVIDIA drivers

 1 non-free packages, 0.1% of 1517 installed packages.
 2 contrib packages, 0.1% of 1517 installed packages.


or if your machine is 100 % free software :

 No non-free or contrib packages installed on ubuntu !!! RMS would be proud. :-)



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Regards,
Tha.Suresh

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