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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <title>Debian -- Packages </title> <link rel="author" href="mailto:webmaster@debian.org"> <meta name="Generator" content="WML 2.32.0"> <meta name="Modified" content="2024-11-09 17:25:18"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"> <meta name="mobileoptimized" content="300"> <meta name="HandheldFriendly" content="true"> <link href="../debian.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <link href="../debian-en.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all"> <link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" title="Debian website search" href="../search.en.xml"> </head> <body> <div id="header"> <div id="upperheader"> <div id="logo"> <a href="../" title="Debian Home"><img src="../Pics/openlogo-50.png" alt="Debian" width="50" height="61"></a> </div>  <div id="searchbox"> <form name="p" method="get" action="https://search.debian.org/cgi-bin/omega"> <p> <input type="hidden" name="DB" value="en"> <input name="P" value="" size="14"> <input type="submit" value="Search"> </p> </form> </div>  </div>   <div id="navbar"> <p class="hidecss"><a href="#content">Skip Quicknav</a></p> <ul>  <li><a href="https://bits.debian.org/" title="Bits from Debian">Blog</a></li> <li><a href="https://micronews.debian.org" title="Micronews from Debian">Micronews</a></li> <li><a href="https://planet.debian.org/" title="The Planet of Debian">Planet</a></li> </ul> </div>  <p id="breadcrumbs"><a href="./">Download Debian</a> / Packages</p> </div>   <div id="content"> <h1>Packages</h1> <ul class="toc"> <li><a href="#note">Introductory notes</a></li> <li><a href="#view">View package lists</a></li> <li><a href="#search_packages">Search package directories</a></li> <li><a href="#search_contents">Search the contents of packages</a></li> </ul> <h2><a name="note" id="note">Introductory notes</a></h2> <p> All packages that are included in the official Debian distribution are free according to the <a href="../social_contract#guidelines">Debian Free Software Guidelines</a>. This assures free use and redistribution of the packages and their complete source code. The official Debian distribution is what is contained in the <em>main</em> section of the Debian archive. </p> <p> As a service to our users, we also provide packages in separate sections that cannot be included in the <em>main</em> distribution due to either a restrictive license or legal issues. They include: </p> <div class="centerblock"> <dl> <dt><em>Contrib</em></dt> <dd> Packages in this area are freely licensed by the copyright holder but depend on other software that is not free. </dd> <dt><em>Non-Free</em></dt> <dd> Packages in this area have some onerous license condition restricting use or redistribution of the software. </dd> <dt><em>Non-Free-Firmware</em></dt> <dd> This section is restricted to device firmware. While packages in this area basically have the same underlying license restrictions as those in non-free, a special exception has been made for them: even if not being DFSG-free, packages from non-free-firmware are allowed to be included in the official installation images. </dd> </dl> </div> <p> Note that same packages might appear in several distributions, but with different version numbers. </p> <hr> <h2><a name="view" id="view">View package lists</a></h2> <dl> <dt><a href="//packages.debian.org/stable/">View the packages in the <strong>stable</strong> distribution</a></dt> <dd> <p> This is the latest official release of the Debian distribution. This is stable and well tested software, which changes only if major security or usability fixes are incorporated. </p> <p> See the <a href="../releases/stable/">stable release pages</a> for more information. </p> </dd> <dt><a href="//packages.debian.org/testing/">View the packages in the <strong>testing</strong> distribution</a></dt> <dd> <p> This area contains packages that are intended to become part of the next stable distribution. There are strict criteria a package in unstable (see below) must obey before it can be added to testing. Note that <q>testing</q> does not get the timely security updates <a href="../security/faq#testing">from the security team</a>. </p> <p> See the <a href="../releases/testing/">testing distribution pages</a> for more information. </p> </dd> <dt><a href="//packages.debian.org/unstable/">View the packages in the <strong>unstable</strong> distribution</a></dt> <dd> <p> This area contains the most recent packages in Debian. Once a package has met our criterion for stability and quality of packaging, it will be included in testing. <q>unstable</q> is also not supported <a href="../security/faq#unstable">by the security team</a>. </p> <p> Packages in unstable are the least tested and may contain problems severe enough to affect the stability of your system. Only experienced users should consider using this distribution. </p> <p> See the <a href="../releases/unstable/">unstable distribution pages</a> for more information. </p> </dd> </dl> <hr> <h2><a name="search_packages" id="search_packages">Search package directories</a></h2> <form method="GET" action="//packages.debian.org/search"> <div> <label for="kw">Keyword:</label> <input type="text" size="30" name="keywords" id="kw"> </div> <div> Search on: <input type="radio" name="searchon" value="names" id="onlynames" checked="checked"> <label for="onlynames">Package names only</label>   <input type="radio" name="searchon" value="all" id="descs"> <label for="descs">Descriptions</label> <input type="radio" name="searchon" value="sourcenames" id="src"> <label for="src">Source package names</label> </div> <div> <label for="searchexact">Only show exact matches:</label> <input type="checkbox" name="exact" value="1" id="searchexact"> </div> <div> <label for="distribversion">Distribution:</label> <select name="suite" id="distribversion"> <option value="experimental">experimental</option> <option value="unstable">unstable</option> <option value="testing">testing</option> <option value="stable" selected="selected">stable</option> <option value="oldstable">oldstable</option> <option value="all">any</option> </select> <label for="releasesection">Section:</label> <select name="section" id="releasesection"> <option value="main">main</option> <option value="contrib">contrib</option> <option value="non-free">non-free</option> <option value="non-free-firmware">non-free-firmware</option> <option value="all" selected="selected">any</option> </select> </div> <div class="action-block-form"> <input type="submit" value="Search"> <input type="reset" value="Reset"> </div> </form> <p>There are shortcuts for some searches available:</p> <ul> <li><code>https://packages.debian.org/<var>name</var></code> for the search on package names.</li> <li><code>https://packages.debian.org/src:<var>name</var></code> for the search on source package names.</li> </ul> <hr> <h2><a name="search_contents" id="search_contents">Search the contents of packages</a></h2> <p> This search engine allows you to search the contents of Debian distributions for any files (or just parts of file names) that are part of packages. 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