Fernando Tadeu Caldeira Brandt wrote:
>
> I just just installed Debian from the August 96 release of
> Infomagic's 6 CD set and I would like to know how to access
> (using dselect) the local and non-free packages.
> Are they in the CD set?
No, they are not.
The 'local' set is just that; ones that you made locally for use on your
machine. Say you have a network of machines with the same cards in them
(not unusual in a commercial network), and you built a package with the
2.0.20 kernel with all the drivers you need. You make this package
available in your 'local' set. Or, you want to keep an older version of
a program around. (You get the idea.)
I have no idea why the 'non-free' set is not included on the CD set,
other than for space reasons, as most of the programs in that set are
included in the other distributions.
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