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Installing software

The recommended way to install new software on Debian, is to use Package Management tools to install packages from the official repositories. These repositories should contain most of the software you will want to install, allowing you not to rely on external sources.

Finding Software

There are several ways to learn what software included in Debian can cover your specific needs.

Debian Administrator's Handbook: Searching packages
Debian Administrator's Handbook: Package Meta Information
Debian Reference Manual - 2. Debian package management - Search method options with aptitude
Debian Reference Manual - 2. Debian package management - Searching on the package meta data

Use a package manager to browse software categories, sort them, and search through available packages.
Debtags web search provides means to search software according to their various facets (see Help page).
Search and browse packages on packages.debian.org. Each package may have a list of "recommended", "suggested" packages which complement the main package, and a list of packages with similar functionality. The new packages RSS feed lists packages recently added to Debian Unstable
snapshot.debian.org - the snapshot archive allows access to all past and current packages in the Debian archive based on dates and version numbers.

Installing software form other sources

Provided you know what you are doing, you might also get software by :

Installing packages from unofficial/third-party repositories
Downloading and running ready-to-use binaries
Building the software from sources.
Deploying software in containers such as Docker
Using other package managers such as FlatPak, Nix/Guix...
writing your own!

Other software lists

Generic software lists

Specialized software lists

awesome-sysadmin - Free Software for system administrators
awesome-selfhosted - Free Software network services and web applications
Libre Projects - Free and Open Source web services

Software forges

Wiki pages

List of pages related to software in Debian:

CategoryPortal | CategorySoftware | CategoryPackageManagement

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-Since it's all about Software, you might want to refer to these other wiki portals:

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 * [[PackageManagement]]
 * [[SystemAdministration]]
 * [[Network]]
 * [[CommandLineInterface]]
 * [[ProgrammingApplication]]
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-The recommended way to install new software on Debian is by using packages from the official repositories. These repositories should contain most of the software you will want to install, allowing you not to rely on external sources.
+The recommended way to install new software on Debian, is to use [[PackageManagement|Package Management]] tools to install packages from the official repositories.
These repositories should contain most of the software you will want to install, allowing you not to rely on external sources.
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-To achieve this, Debian has several tools dedicated to [[PackageManagement|Package Management]], which allow you to manage the APT repositories (main, contrib, non-free), and to search and select software to be installed.

Provided you know what you are doing, you might also get software by :

 * building the software from sources.
 * installing packages from unofficial repositories/websites.
 * getting binaries
 * deploying software with containers such as Docker
 * using Flatpak or other package managers such as Nix/Guix.
 * writing your own! ;)
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- * Debian Administrator's Handbook: [[https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-handbook/sect.searching-packages.en.html|Searching packages]]
 * Debian Administrator's Handbook: [[https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-handbook/sect.package-meta-information.en.html|Package Meta Information]]
 * Debian Reference Manual: [[https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_search_method_options_with_aptitude|Search method options with aptitude]] (Chapter 2. Debian package management)
 * Debian Reference Manual: [[https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_searching_on_the_package_meta_data|Searching on the package meta data]] (Chapter 2. Debian package management)
+'''[[https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-handbook/sect.searching-packages.en.html|Debian Administrator's Handbook: Searching packages]]'''<<BR>>
'''[[https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-handbook/sect.package-meta-information.en.html|Debian Administrator's Handbook: Package Meta Information]]'''<<BR>>
'''[[https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_search_method_options_with_aptitude|Debian Reference Manual - 2. Debian package management - Search method options with aptitude]]'''<<BR>>
'''[[https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_searching_on_the_package_meta_data|Debian Reference Manual - 2. Debian package management - Searching on the package meta data]]'''<<BR>>
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+ * Use a [[PackageManagementTools|package manager]] to browse software categories, sort them, and search through available packages.
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- * [[https://packages.debian.org|packages.debian.org]], Debian packages themselves contain 'recommends, 'suggests' and 'extends' meta-information fields which may be starting points when looking for more features or software alternatives. Debian packages website also lists «Similar packages».
 * [[PackageManagement|package managers]] are sorting software according to categories. Some package managers such as [[DebPkg:gnome-software]] show featured applications and may provide different ways to sort packages.
 * other sources of ideas include this wiki, in particular through the Software portal, and other web pages, like blog posts from [[PlanetDebian|Planet Debian]]
 * some interesting packages newly added to Debian repositories are mentionned in [[https://www.debian.org/News/weekly/|Debian Weekly Newsletter]].
+ * Search and browse packages on [[https://packages.debian.org|packages.debian.org]]. Each package may have a list of "recommended", "suggested" packages which complement the main package, and a list of packages with similar functionality. The [[https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg?format=rss|new packages RSS feed]] lists packages recently added to [[DebianUnstable|Debian Unstable]]
 * [[https://snapshot.debian.org/|snapshot.debian.org]] - the snapshot archive allows access to all past and current packages in the Debian archive based on dates and version numbers.
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-You can see full list of packages coming with Debian Stable [[https://packages.debian.org/stable/|here]]
+== Installing software form other sources ==

Provided you know what you are doing, you might also get software by :

 * Installing packages from [[DebianRepository/UseThirdParty|unofficial/third-party repositories]]
 * Downloading and running ready-to-use binaries
 * Building the software from sources.
 * Deploying software in containers such as [[Docker]]
 * Using other package managers such as [[FlatPak]], Nix/Guix...
 * writing your own! ;)
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- * [[http://screenshots.debian.net/packages|Screenshots of packages]]
+ * [[http://screenshots.debian.net/packages]] - Screenshots of packages
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- * [[DebianSoftware|An Overview of the Software Available to Debian Stable]]
 * [[FlatpakHowto|How to install third party software using Flatpak]]
## * Find packages by [[http://debtags.debian.net/search/bytag|category]]
+ * [[DebianSoftware]] - An Overview of the Software Available to Debian Stable
 * [[BTS]] - Bugs in debian software
 * [[FlatpakHowto]] - How to install third party software using Flatpak
 * [[WNPP]] - list of packages requested for packaging and/or looking for maintainers
 * [[WindowsEquivalent]] - Equivalents to Windows software

== Other software lists ==

'''Generic software lists'''

 * [[WikiPedia:List_of_free_and_open-source_software_packages|List of free and open-source software packages - Wikipedia]]
 * [[WikiPedia:Portal:Free_and_open-source_software|Free and Open-Source Software portal - Wikipedia]]
 * [[https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/List_of_applications|List of applications - ArchWiki]]

'''Specialized software lists'''

 * [[https://github.com/n1trux/awesome-sysadmin|awesome-sysadmin]] - Free Software for system administrators
 * [[https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted|awesome-selfhosted]] - Free Software network services and web applications
 * [[https://libreprojects.net/|Libre Projects]] - Free and Open Source web services 


'''Software [[WikiPedia:Forge (software)|forges]]'''

 * [[https://github.com/explore]]
 * [[https://gitlab.com/explore]]
 * [[https://launchpad.net/]]
 * [[https://sourceforge.net/]]

== Wiki pages ==

'''List of pages related to software in Debian:'''

<<FullSearchCached(language:en category:CategorySoftware)>>
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Installing software

Finding Software

Installing software form other sources

See also

Other software lists

Wiki pages