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Note: Questions MUST be programming related. Use this tag only if your question relates to development on Debian using operating system API's or Debian-specific features, or to creating packages in the deb format.

The Debian Project

The Debian Project is a project aimed at providing a complete, all-purpose operating system with free open source software. The term 'Debian' is used for the Linux distribution rather then the project. In its most common form the operating system uses a Linux kernel and is packed with GNU tools (officially naming it "Debian GNU/Linux"). The name Debian comes from the names Debra and Ian Murdock (founder and his wife) (1).

Debian is known for its strict adherence to free software (2), its dependency resolving package manager (DPKG, APT), its stability (there are however releases available with more bleeding-edge software) and ability to run on lots of types of hardware. It has many derivatives (2) including the the very popular Ubuntu ().

What should and should not be asked here

Since Debian generally uses the Linux kernel and software also available for other Linux distributions there is a lot of common ground between these topics.

The debian-tag should be used for questions about

  • Creating packages in the deb format
  • Development on Debian using operating system API's or Debian specific features

For other questions there are more relevant tags, either more general or more specific:

  • Developing on a Debian PC (use a tag for the programming languages or tools you're using instead)
  • Using the command line (use or, preferably, the actual used shell like or )
  • Configuration and administration questions should be asked on Serverfault
  • Questions about using Debian or some of its tools fit better on Superuser or Unix & Linux

Learn more

Index of releases

  • The next release of Debian is codenamed buster — no release date has been set
  • Debian 9 (stretch) — current stable release
  • Debian 8 (jessie) — obsolete stable release
  • Debian 7 (wheezy) — obsolete stable release
  • Debian 6.0 (squeeze) — obsolete stable release
  • Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny) — obsolete stable release
  • Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch) — obsolete stable release
  • Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge) — obsolete stable release
  • Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody) — obsolete stable release
  • Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato) — obsolete stable release
  • Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 (slink) — obsolete stable release
  • Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 (hamm) — obsolete stable release
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OwnCloud Download speed really slow

I'm using owncloud for the first time, I have two dedicated servers one with SSD drive which hosts the owncloud and a second server with a larger raid storage on SAS disks both servers have a dedicated 100Mbps line. I have mounted the disks from the…
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Setup private networking between two hosts and two VMs with libvirt / openvswitch

I have two nodes and two VM's kvm01 -nic1 123.123.123.1 VM1 -vnet1 123.123.123.2 (public) -vnet2 10.0.0.1 (private) kvm02 -nic1 123.123.123.2 VM2 -vnet1 123.123.123.4 (public) -vnet2 10.0.0.2 (private) How is it possible to setup an openvswitch…
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How to get distribution name and version of OS in qmake

I want to get the distribution name and version name of OS in qmake. For Linux, in some distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, ...), I used: DISTRIBUTION = $$system(cat /etc/issue | cut -d\' \' -f1) message($$DISTRIBUTION) OSVERSION = $$system(cat…
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Cannot run a script as root with systemctl

I need to apply a patch ram to a chip for Bluetooth on startup of a Debian linux. This patch uses /dev/mem to reset the GPIO. This updated init script for bluetooth is included in /etc/init.d/bluetooth. My bluetooth.service…
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Neo4j service won't start with an imported database on Debian

I've been playing around with neo4j recently on my Debian 7.8 install. It's awesome! Today I imported around 100000 nodes and 150000 relationships using neo4j-import tool. I stopped the neo4j service and copied the imported database to…
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Error building vim from source on debian

Hi I am trying to build vim from source with python support. (Eventually want to install YouCompleteMe) My configure arguments are as follows: $>./configure --enable-perlinterp \ --enable-pythoninterp \ --enable-cscope \ --enable-gui=gtk2 \ …
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Provide vim syntax highlighting system wide by debian package

I wrote a custom software using its own configuration files under /etc. The software is built in a Debian package and delivered by a custom repository. In order to provide a nice syntax highlighting in vim I wrote all the necessary files to nicely…
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Redirecting subdomain to its sub folder, Safari showing too many redirect occured trying to open

Possible Duplicate I did the same. But instead of using .htaccess I put these lines RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^one\.domain\.com RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /folder/$1 [R=301] to /etc/apache2/sites-available/default. …
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phpinfo() uses old version. What am I missing after "make install"?

I have just built and installed (./configure, make, make install) the actual php version 5.6.9 (from http://php.net/downloads.php) on my Debian squeeze. Typing php --version in the console brings PHP 5.6.9, as expected. Now I want to use this…
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Python Requests just got very slow, better alternative?

I have a web server with some pages using Python scripts as backends. About half a dozen of them use the Requests module to fetch online resources in real time. This used to work fine for a long time. After upgrading to latest Debian (jessie), every…
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sudo gem install rails- this doesn't give me a rails command for bash

I'm on Ubuntu. I type in sudo gem install rails. This works fine, installs railes and 7 other gems fine. Yet $ rails blog is saying this: The program 'rails' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install rails
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Cassandra - INSERTs are not possible anymore after some time

We run cassandra 2.1.5 installation with 3 nodes on different debian wheezy VMs. Now we have the issue that after some days of operation without problems, suddenly inserts to a table are no longer possible. Then we see the following error…
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ERROR: open:/etc/bind/named.conf: permission denied on restarting bind9 service

I have Debian and Bind9 and Webmin Yesterday I launch in error the command chmod -Rv 777 / I tried to run these output commands to generate a script to restore the most recent permissions but when i restarted the bind9 service I get the below error…
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Is it possible to trim a log file a daemon has open without the daemon closing the file?

I have a daemon writing to a log file that, eventually, fills up the disk. Is there a way for me to periodically limit the size of the log file without stopping the daemon without changing the code in it? SIGHUP kills the daemon.
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Which package to install in Debian to get asoundlib.h?

Trying to install Linrad for Wheezy. But it complaints about missing asoundlib.h. There is no package named alsa-dev, so which package contains asoundlib.h?
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