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External repositories provide application or versions that are not in the official ones. You can find some very interesting stuff there. Most of them are not managed by Debian project. We use the following tags to describe the repositories, to get an idea of the trust you can put in these repositories. Some software projects and some Debian developers provides extra repositories that you can use besides the [[DebianRepository|official ones]]. There are various reasons why the software availaible in these repositories is not packaged in Debian. It could be because the software is not yet in Debian (dotdeb), legal/patent concerns (debian-multimedia), or because the software itself is closed-source (Oracle,Skype,Opera). We use the following tags to describe the repositories, to get an idea of the trust you can put in these repositories.

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Some software projects and some Debian developers provides extra repositories that you can use besides the official ones. There are various reasons why the software availaible in these repositories is not packaged in Debian. It could be because the software is not yet in Debian (dotdeb), legal/patent concerns (debian-multimedia), or because the software itself is closed-source (Oracle,Skype,Opera). We use the following tags to describe the repositories, to get an idea of the trust you can put in these repositories.

  • DD : The repository is managed by a Debian developer or a Debian maintainer
  • FLOSS: the repository contains only free/opensource software
  • COM: the repository is backed by an external commercial identity.

These tags can be combined

NB: The apt-get.org package search engine, covers many inofficial repositories, but is now outdated.

Here is a list of known places :

  • Debian Ports

    • DD, FLOSS, semi official
    • Provides avr32, m68k, sh4 and sparc64 ports. There's several known ?DebianPorts/Mirrors.

  • Debian Maintainers

    • DD
    • Provides packages not available within the official Debian repository. It contains packages which are not distributable within Debian due to special license terms and packages which are not included in Debian due to political reasons (e.g. patent infringement, binary-only/no sources, or special restrictive licenses).
  • Debian Multimedia

    • DD
    • Provides (mostly multimedia) packages for stable/testing/unstable which aren't or can't be in the official distribution (licences...).
  • Debian Qt/KDE

    • DD, FLOSS, semi-official
    • The primary purpose of this repository is to provide package versions of the KDE applications which for some reason cannot be uploaded to unstable or experimental. For Debian sid.
  • MirBSD

    • FLOSS
    • Provides adapted versions of packages (like mksh, openntpd, rdate) and new packages, including backports to etch/hardy/lenny as the need arises. Unofficial, but tries to produce good quality and standards compliant packages.
  • Enlightenment

    • FLOSS
    • Provides the Window Manager Enlightment DR17 and its associated libraries
  • Games in openSUSE Build Service

    • FLOSS
    • Provides the 0ad game
  • Dotdeb

    • FLOSS
    • Provides backports to Debian Stable of up to dates versions of the MySql/Php LAMP stack
  • OpenNMS

    • FLOSS, COM
    • Provides opennms, a Network Management Solution
  • Oracle

  • Google

    • COM
    • Provides Chrome, Picasa, and Google Desktop
  • VirtualBox

    • COM
    • Provides VirtualBox including the non-free components

  • Skype

  • Opera

    • COM
    • Provides the Opera web browser