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Debian Apt Sources

Debian only has three release cycles stable, testing, and unstable.

Make sure to install these:

sudo apt install curl wget apt-transport-https dirmngr

Stable

The "stable" distribution contains the latest officially released distribution of Debian.

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###### Debian Main Repos
deb http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian/ stable-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster-backports main

deb-src http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian/ stable-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster-backports main

Testing

The "testing" distribution contains packages that haven't been accepted into a "stable" release yet, but they are in the queue for that.

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###### Debian Main Repos
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing-updates main contrib non-free

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security testing-security main
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian-security testing-security main

Unstable

The "unstable" distribution is where active development of Debian occurs.

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###### Debian Main Repos
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

Last update: 2021-11-25