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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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What are the main differences between BIND9 and Bundy?

What are the main differences between BIND9 and Bundy? Is Bundy secure to use? I real on their website that: The project is currently working on fixing up some loose ends in the code inherited, clean the code, and to get the initial…
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debian lxc create error

I recently freshly installed Debian 8, and i want to create a linux contener based on wheezy. But when i launch the command: sudo lxc-create -n omvctr -t debian -- -r wheezy -a amd64 I obtain this trace : Generation complete. update-rc.d: using…
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Debian Stretch and Jessie 32-bit libraries

For those looking for the answer, there it's, as it's not clear on other websites. This is required at least by the Intel compiler. Maybe it helps also for other software.
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Autostart of GTK application failing

I have a GTK application that runs perfectly when run from the desktop or a terminal window. I created a myprog.desktop file in ~/.config/autostart: [Desktop…
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Symfony php.ini Debian

I'm using Debian 7 amd64 LAMP server on Oracle VM VirtualBox. I'm trying to install Symfony and I'm having some lil problems When I run command: php my_project_name/app/check.php It says: [ERROR] Your system is not ready to run Symfony2…
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How to do case insensitive regex on an Nginx server?

A serious problem happened after migrating a server from Ubuntu to Debian. Debian won't allow two files, for example "a.html" and "A.html" to be in the same directory. My server gets three types of requests and this is the current status: requests…
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unable to get local issuer certificate / SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't load from

ZenLoadBalancer sits in front of my web servers (Debian). The load balancer strips of SSL. This works fine in a browser. However, when connecting via SOAP or Curl, I am having a problem. I used a curl test from another SO post to ensure the…
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Why can't Celery daemon see tasks?

I have a Django 1.62 application running on Debian 7.8 with Nginx 1.2.1 as my proxy server and Gunicorn 19.1.1 as my application server. I've installed Celery 3.1.7 and RabbitMQ 2.8.4 to handle asynchronous tasks. I'm able to start a Celery worker…
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What does `!:-` do?

I am very new to bash scripting and in Ubuntu\Debian package system. Today I am studying the content of this preinst file that the script executes before that package is unpacked from its Debian archive (.deb) file. My fist doubt is about a line…
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Why are nanosleep() and usleep() too slow?

I have a program that generates packets to send to a receiver. I need an efficient method of introducing a small delay between the sending of each packet so as not to overrun the receiver. I've tried usleep() and nanosleep() but they seem to be…
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Torsocks not connecting

For some reason I can't connect with torsocks via command line. Every time I try to run something (irssi, mcabber, apt-get, whatever) it simply does not connect. I used to run terminal with tor in the past and never had a problem so far. I run…
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Can't start Tomcat 6.0.26 after update to Debian Squeeze

Working Tomcat setup stopped working after dist-upgrade on Debian (to Squeeze). 8005 is the shutdown port but it is not occupied. Any ideas on what it may be? It's not quite self-speaking exception. This is log from…
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debhelper instructed to use python3, but runs setup.py with python2

I am struggling with dh to create package for python 3 (and not for python 2). I use setup.py which, when called with python3, builds for python 3. I have a separate debian directory for py3k, so I want to build just for that version. debian/rules…
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Build a simple browser with python

I want to build an ultra minimal browser which will just load one url, and will always be in full screen or kiosk mode. I will be running this in a Raspberry Pi. I explored several options in stack overflow and Google. Below are the potential…
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Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. - Redmine installation on Debian 7

I follow installation instructions from here: http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/HowTo_Install_Redmine_2_integrated_with_Gitolite_2_on_Debian_Wheezy_with_Apache_and_Phusion_Passenger This is my output: root@projects:~# sudo -i -u…
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