nat0@nat0-E-6100:~$ vrms The program 'vrms' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install vrms nat0@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 <a href="http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/">http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a> 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@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@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"? --N.B. -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html" target="_blank">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html</a>