On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 17:31, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:
> Shri Shrikumar wrote:
> <snip>
> > 
> > Check your /etc/apt/sources.list to make sure that it says something
> > like
> > 
> > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian <yourdist> main contrib non-free
> >                                                   ^^^^^^^^
> > 
> > the non-free part has to be there for you to be able to download this
> > package.
> > 
> > 
> > HTH,
> <snip>
> 
> Doh.
> 
> Is it possible to have both non-free and free listed? Would I have to 
> have multiple entries for each source?

just add non-free to the end of your source line. This way, you will
have non free packages added to your package db. I just gave
ftp.debian.org as an example.


Shri


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