Ubuntu Dapper (6.06) - great linux distro

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: drag

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also to prepare your system for compiling kernel drivers isn't to hard. If you have 'universe' repository enabled in Ubuntu (it's aviable by default in Debian)...

Isn't 'universe' the equivalent of 'contrib' which is not enable by default in Debian?

Edit: Oh wait, my bad, I'm betting you mean 'module-assistant' is available in the Debian 'main' repo.

 

[Nothinman]

Isn't 'universe' the equivalent of 'contrib' which is not enable by default in Debian?

No, packages in contrib are free software that depend on non-free softare to run so they can't be put into main. Universe is just the rest of the Debian packages that the Ubuntu people don't want to officially support.