Re: [orca-list] Trisquel - Happy with Orca, but without non free packages

From: kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>
To: luciano de souza <luchyanus gmail com>, orca-list <orca-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Trisquel - Happy with Orca, but without non free packages
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 16:45:02 -0600

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hi
Hate to break it to ya, but trisquel is really ... how to put it ...
they despise nonfree packages. They don't include any in the
distribution, and as far as I know it's not possible to install
nonfree packages in trisquel. If you managed to, you'd sort of be
defeating the point of trisquel anyway. It's why I don't use it as my
daily distro, although I do keep it on a flash drive for testing new
laptops and desktops to see how they do with only free software
It *should* be possible to install nonfree packages in trisquel, but I
think the problem you're running into is what I did when trying to
install voxin on trisquel way back when. Dependencies. They've somehow
figured out what nonfree packages depend on and pulled those as long
as "libre" packages don't depend on them too
Thanks
Kendell clark


On 11/15/2014 01:55 PM, luciano de souza wrote:

Hello all,

Some days ago, here, a lister gave us a very nice tip: to install
Trisquel 7.

I was really satisfied with the result. Orca worked well; the 
old-styled Gnome interface worked well. Gedit is not well, but 
installing Mousepad and Leafpad, I could type my texts without 
problems.

Now, my problem is the instalation of certain non free packages
like ubuntu-restricted-extras and flashplugin-installer. They are
important for me, so I tried to add Ubuntu's repositories using
commandlines like:

$ sudo add-apt-repository http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ $
sudo apt-get update

I added several repositories, but probably not enough to find this
packages.

Yes, this is the output after a 'sudo apt-get install': "The
package 'ubuntu-restricted-extras' can't be found"; "the package 
'flashplugin-installer' can't be found".

Orca works really very well with this interface. I really liked 
Trisquel, but how can I use non free packages as the mentioned
ones?

If this is not possible, with a pain in heart, I will have to
choose another distro.

Regards

References:
- [orca-list] Trisquel - Happy with Orca, but without non free packages
  - From: luciano de souza

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