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Changes to Gobuntu

Posted Jun 15, 2008 12:24 UTC (Sun) by gerv (subscriber, #3376)
Parent article: Changes to Gobuntu

What I'd like to know is: is it possible to do an upgrade from standard Ubuntu to Gobuntu (or
Gnewsense, for that matter), whereby it tells you "Packages X, Y and Z are non-free. Remove?
Y/N".

I currently upgrade Ubuntu a few weeks before release to test it, using update-manager -d or
whatever the command is. Do I have to do a whole new fresh install to get on the "Free
software only" track?

Gerv

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Changes to Gobuntu

Posted Jun 15, 2008 13:37 UTC (Sun) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]

aptitude install vrms
vrms

And have your own virtual Richard M. Stallman report on every non-free package installed on
your system.

Changes to Gobuntu

Posted Jun 15, 2008 14:49 UTC (Sun) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750) [Link]

Just go to System -> Administration -> Software Sources and unselect "restricted" and
"multiverse" repositories. After that you may go to eg. Synaptic, and see which packages are
marked "Local or obsolete" - you will see the packages that were from the non-free
repositories.

By default Ubuntu has about 4-6 packages installed from restricted (most just meta packages
pointing eventually to kernel-version-restricted-architecture modules package), and none from
multiverse.

Note that it lists also other packages you have installed outside repositories.