On 2 July 2015 at 20:29, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday 02 July 2015 18:37:21 Michael Fothergill wrote: > > I had to do aptitude install linux-firmware-nonfree to get it installed. > It > > is not automatic. > > No, it is not. Upgrade doesn't know what new software you want to > install!!! > I should read up on aptitude. > > Lisi > > I am used to installing packages from the non-free repositories that do non essential things independently of apt-get update and aptitude safe-upgrade etc.
But, I thought that if X windows can't work without a given package, even if it is a non-free one, then once the sources.list file has the non-free moniker present it then if you ran apt-get update and then aptitude safe-upgrade it would automatically fetch it and install it- because to me at any rate, X windows is an important part of the OS from a practical viewpoint. But that was incorrect. Regards MF
