On Thursday 09 January 2020 at 21:51:32, 'smee via Dng wrote:

> Right, and as I mention apt says firmware-linux-nonfree was manually
> installed, but I don't recall installing it. It says it isn't a
> dependency for anything else, so it wasn't installed as a dependency
> when I installed something else.

Hm, odd.

> In addition to my not remembering installing firmware-linux-nonfree, wouldn't
> it have required me to add the non-free repository to have installed it in
> the first place?

I don't think there's another way of doing it (other than wget the .deb and
then dpkg -i, but I think it's even more likely you'd remember doing that :) )

> Sorry if we're getting off track here but I honestly don't recall
> installing anything nonfree on this machine.

We may never get to the bottom of this mystery :)


Antony.

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