On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:04:27AM -0700, peanut butter wrote: > Hi, forgive me if this is a stupid or over-answered question. I > just spent alot of time searching the last quarter of mailing > list archives and searching Debian Package descriptions to answer > the question myself but can't seem to find a suitable answer: > > What is the difference between Communicator offered through "contrib" > vs. "non-free". Which naturally leads to: is one better > than the other? > > With the just previous round of Communicator being released by Debian > Security, the last two machines I have upgrading "voluntarily", as a > "new" package, downloaded the non-free version of Communicator which > conflicts with the (I suppose) already installed contrib version. > Since I apparently can't have both, I have to decide between one or the > other.
The communicator package in contrib is a meta package that depends upon the real packages in non-free. Rather than downloading and trying to install it, let apt-get handle the dependencies for you (apt-get install communicator). $ apt-cache show communicator Package: communicator Priority: optional Section: contrib/web Installed-Size: 7 Maintainer: Ryan Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Source: netscape4.base Version: 1:4.76-1 Depends: communicator-smotif-476,netscape-java-476,netscape-base-4 Conflicts: netscape-base-406,netscape-base-407,netscape-base-408,netscape-base-45,netscape-base-451,netscape-base-46,netscape-base-461,netscape-base-47,netscape-base-472,netscape-base-473,netscape-base-475 Filename: dists/potato/contrib/binary-i386/web/communicator_4.76-1.deb Size: 1056 MD5sum: d9d1220ee850ce42561d3f391f818e1a Description: Meta package that depends on other packages This package depends on the real netscape packages, so as to make things easier for people to install. meta-package: yes
