I downloaded and installed the latest Debian CD image (http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.3.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-8.3.0-amd64-CD-1.iso)
Installing to bare metal enables the components main contrib and non-free. Installing to a virtualbox virtual machine only enables the main component, not contrib nor non-free. Why is that? Is it intended behaviour? If so, what is the reasoning behind it? Is it a bug? I did some debugging and the problem seems to be located in the installers 'apt-setup' package. In that shell script the calls to db-get apt-setup/non-free and db-fget apt-setup/contrib return false when installing to virtual machine, but they return true when installing to bare metal. Is there a way to set up debconf so that it enables components contrib and non-free when installing to a virtualbox virtual machine? Any advice gratefully received, jds1307
