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

Tarball 74r84ll at gmail.com
Wed Nov 17 19:57:23 UTC 2010


2010/11/17 Tha.Suresh <jemenisuresh at gmail.com>:
> 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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>
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   That is very helpful. Thank you!

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