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Asked: 2023-02-17 10:48:00 +0800 CST

contrib & non-free apt sources gone from jammy?

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I used to add contrib & non-free to my apt sources, but found they're gone from jammy:

$ sudo apt update
W: Skipping acquire of configured file 'contrib/binary-amd64/Packages' as repository 'http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease' doesn't have the component 'contrib' (component misspelt in sources.list?)
W: Skipping acquire of configured file 'non-free/binary-amd64/Packages' as repository 'http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease' doesn't have the component 'non-free' (component misspelt in sources.list?)
W: Skipping acquire of configured file 'contrib/binary-amd64/Packages' as repository 'http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease' doesn't have the component 'contrib' (component misspelt in sources.list?)
W: Skipping acquire of configured file 'non-free/binary-amd64/Packages' as repository 'http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease' doesn't have the component 'non-free' (component misspelt in sources.list?)

Then, how to fix common problems like:

E: Package 'rar' has no installation candidate
E: Package 'unrar' has no installation candidate

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy main contrib non-free restricted universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-updates main contrib non-free restricted universe

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
Release:        22.04
Codename:       jammy
apt

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    rar and unrar packages are available from the multiverse repository. It is enabled by default if it is a regular Ubuntu release.

    contrib and non-free are not Ubuntu repositories, but Debian.

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