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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 concerns (deb-multimedia), or because the software itself is closed-source (e.g., Oracle, 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NB: The apt-get.org package search engine, covers many unofficial repositories, but is now outdated.

Here is a list of known places :

  • Debian Multimedia

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

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

  • 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.
  • Debian WRT for Embedded Devices

  • Dotdeb

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

    • FLOSS
    • Provides the Window Manager Enlightment DR17 and its associated libraries
  • Google Chrome

    • COM
    • Provides Chrome
    • deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main

  • Google Earth

    • COM
    • Provides Google Earth
    • deb http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb/ stable main

  • Google Talk plugin

    • COM
    • Provides Google Talk plugin
    • deb http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/ stable main

  • 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.
  • mod_pagespeed

    • COM
    • Provides mod_pagespeed for Apache
    • deb http://dl.google.com/linux/mod-pagespeed/deb/ stable main

  • MongoDB

  • NeuroDebian

    • DD
    • Staging area and backports (Debian/Ubuntu) for Neuroscience software
  • OpenNMS

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

    • COM
    • Provides the Opera web browser
  • Oracle

  • PKGS.ORG

    • FLOSS
    • Package for various distro's including Debian stable, testing, unstable, experimental
    • Check for Mozilla, Google and other project repo's
  • Trinity

    • FLOSS
    • Provides Trinity (fork of KDE3.5)
  • VirtualBox

    • COM
    • Provides VirtualBox including the non-free components