On Thu 21 Jan 2016 at 23:10:51 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 05:57:52PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 08:17:42 +1300 Chris Bannister > > <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 06:18:09PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > > > On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:31:18 +0200 > > > > Amr Saber <amr.m.saber.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi there, > > > > > While I was configuring some thing in the sources.list file as > > > > > apt-get couldn't get any package I wanted or asked for (I double > > > > > checked the spelling for each package) and it just said package > > > > > not found ... any way, The problem is that the sources.list file > > > > > was accidentally deleted and I can't find any version of it > > > > > online and ofcourse the apt-get is no longer working at all > > > > > > > > Assuming you're running stable, > > > > > > > > deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ stable main > > > > deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ stable-updates main > > > > deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ stable-proposed-updates main > > > > deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ stable-backports main > > > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main > > > > > > > > is the complete setup. > > > > > > It's not complete, it's missing contrib and non-free. > > > > Correction: complete *official* setup anyway. Unless Debian has dropped > > any pretence of contrib and non-free being unofficial. > > Whatever. To have a fully functioning system you need contrib and > non-free in your sources.list, sure, you could go out of your way and > buy hardware which doesn't need any firmware, but guess what, those > people don't tend to post to this list asking for help. > > > I don't recommend non-free software to anyone as a matter of principle. > > Sure, but when their computer stops working because of an update and the > installed firmware blob is no longer working, they'll complain to this > list --- and guess what the posted solution will be? > > I'm certain it will be "oh, you're missing contrib and non-free in your > sources.list" > > It appears there was some talk about refining the sources.list, but it's > not so straight forward: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/01/msg00233.html
If non-free firmware is provided during the course of using the installer the "official" sources.list includes non-free.
