#DEBIAN BACKPORTS INSTALL#

You put buster-backports after the -t, because that is the name of the repository in your sources.list, if you are running another version of Debian, change accordingly. Wine (originally an acronym for 'Wine Is Not an Emulator') is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD. Make sure to use the correct codename for. Append the appropriate lines to the file based on your Debian version. Execute the command below to open the sources.list file with the nano text editor: sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list. Search and download Linux packages for Adlie, AlmaLinux, Alpine, ALT Linux, Amazon Linux, Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, KaOS, Mageia, Mint.

#DEBIAN BACKPORTS INSTALL#

sudo apt-get -t buster-backports install package Follow these steps to enable the backports repository on your Debian system: Open the terminal on your Debian system. Then you can install packages by selecting backports repositories.

To use these packages you need to edit sources.list file vim /etc/apt/sources.listĪnd add this line, can be at the end deb buster-backports main (In a few cases, usually for security updates, backports are also created from the Debian unstable distribution.) To install a package from backports we have two options (don't forget to replace stretch with the codename of your current Debian distribution, if necessary): apt install nginx/stretch-backports This would install nginx from backports and package dependencies (e.g., libraries) from the regular repositories, if possible. Because the package is also present in the next Debian release, you can easily upgrade your stable+backports system once the next Debian release comes out. Debian backports are according to its homepageīackports are packages taken from the next Debian release (called 'testing'), adjusted and recompiled for usage on Debian stable. There are times when running apt-get update in Ubuntu will result in error messages such as the following: chrisserver sudo apt-get update Ign.