{"id":212,"date":"2017-09-25T08:59:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T08:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info.ffteixeira.net\/2017\/09\/25\/deleting-non-free-software-from-debian-gnu-linux\/"},"modified":"2017-09-25T08:59:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T08:59:28","slug":"deleting-non-free-software-from-debian-gnu-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"Deleting non-free Software from Debian GNU\/Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>if you use Debian or Debian based like Ubuntu, you can check if you have installed non-free software via Debian way. By Default Debian does not install it unless you put non-free on your apt repo, so delete it first if it exists.<\/p>\n<p>Install the tool vrms (virtual Richard M. Stallman)<\/p>\n<p># apt-get install vrms<\/p>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<p># aptitude install vrms<\/p>\n<p>Then, delete all non-free software, mandatory if you want to be a 100% Free Software guy, also to make happy RMS \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p># apt-get remove &ndash;purge `vrms -s | xargs echo -n &amp;&amp; echo`<\/p>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<p># aptitude purge `vrms -s | xargs echo -n &amp;&amp; echo`<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anothersysadmin.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/05\/deleting-non-free-software-from-debian-gnulinux\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Credits<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>if you use Debian or Debian based like Ubuntu, you can check if you have installed non-free software via Debian way. By Default Debian does not install it unless you put non-free on your apt repo, so delete it first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/?p=212\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}