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

[Nathan Bahn]

nat0 at nat0-E-6100:~$ vrms
The program 'vrms' is currently not installed.  You can install it by
typing:
sudo apt-get install vrms
nat0 at nat0-E-6100:~$ sudo apt-get install vrms
[sudo] password for nat0:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  vrms
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 12.9kB of archives.
After this operation, 102kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe vrms all 1.15
[12.9kB]
Fetched 12.9kB in 0s (18.6kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package vrms.
(Reading database ... 155360 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking vrms (from .../apt/archives/vrms_1.15_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up vrms (1.15) ...
nat0 at nat0-E-6100:~$ vrms
            Non-free packages installed on nat0-E-6100

libttspico-data           Small Footprint TTS (lingware)
libttspico-utils          Small Footprint TTS (binaries)
libttspico0               Small Footprint TTS (library)
mbrola                    Multilingual software speech synthesizer
mbrola-us1                American English female voice for Mbrola
mythmusic                 Music add-on module for MythTV

             Contrib packages installed on nat0-E-6100

flashplugin-installer     Adobe Flash Player plugin installer
flashplugin-nonfree-extra Adobe Flash Player platform support library for
Esound
mathematica-fonts         Installer of Mathematica fonts
nvidia-common             Find obsolete NVIDIA drivers

  6 non-free packages, 0.3% of 1724 installed packages.
  4 contrib packages, 0.2% of 1724 installed packages.
nat0 at nat0-E-6100:~$



I'm not exactly certain what the 6 non-free packages are..... (but I must
have installed them somehow)

And what, pray tell, is a "contrib package"?

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