[ buster ]
[ buster-updates ]
[ buster-backports ]
[ bullseye ]
[ bullseye-updates ]
[ bullseye-backports ]
[ bookworm ]
[ bookworm-updates ]
[ bookworm-backports ]
[ trixie ]
[ sid ]
[ experimental ]
List of sections in "experimental"
- Administration Utilities
- Utilities to administer system resources, manage user accounts, etc.
- Communication Programs
- Software to use your modem in the old fashioned style.
- Databases
- Database Servers and Clients.
- debian-installer udeb packages
- Special packages for building customized debian-installer variants. Do not install them on a normal system!
- Debug packages
- Packages providing debugging information for executables and shared libraries.
- Development
- Development utilities, compilers, development environments, libraries, etc.
- Documentation
- FAQs, HOWTOs and other documents trying to explain everything related to Debian, and software needed to browse documentation (man, info, etc).
- Editors
- Software to edit files. Programming environments.
- Electronics
- Electronics utilities.
- Embedded software
- Software suitable for use in embedded applications.
- Fonts
- Font packages.
- Games
- Programs to spend a nice time with after all this setting up.
- GNOME
- The GNOME desktop environment, a powerful, easy to use set of integrated applications.
- GNU R
- Everything about GNU R, a statistical computation and graphics system.
- GNUstep
- The GNUstep environment.
- Go
- Go programming language, libraries, and development tools.
- Graphics
- Editors, viewers, converters... Everything to become an artist.
- Ham Radio
- Software for ham radio.
- Haskell
- Everything about Haskell.
- Web Servers
- Web servers and their modules.
- Interpreters
- All kind of interpreters for interpreted languages. Macro processors.
- Introspection
- Machine readable introspection data for use by development tools.
- Java
- Everything about Java.
- JavaScript
- JavaScript programming language, libraries, and development tools.
- KDE
- The K Desktop Environment, a powerful, easy to use set of integrated applications.
- Kernels
- Operating System Kernels and related modules.
- Library development
- Libraries necessary for developers to write programs that use them.
- Libraries
- Libraries to make other programs work. They provide special features to developers.
- Lisp
- Everything about Lisp.
- Language packs
- Localization support for big software packages.
- Programs to route, read, and compose E-mail messages.
- Mathematics
- Math software.
- Meta packages
- Packages that mainly provide dependencies on other packages.
- Miscellaneous
- Miscellaneous utilities that didn't fit well anywhere else.
- Network
- Daemons and clients to connect your system to the world.
- OCaml
- Everything about OCaml, an ML language implementation.
- Old Libraries
- Old versions of libraries, kept for backward compatibility with old applications.
- Other OS's and file systems
- Software to run programs compiled for other operating systems, and to use their filesystems.
- Perl
- Everything about Perl, an interpreted scripting language.
- PHP
- Everything about PHP.
- Python
- Everything about Python, an interpreted, interactive object oriented language.
- Ruby
- Everything about Ruby, an interpreted object oriented language.
- Rust
- Rust programming language, library crates, and development tools
- Science
- Basic tools for scientific work
- Shells
- Command shells. Friendly user interfaces for beginners.
- Sound
- Utilities to deal with sound: mixers, players, recorders, CD players, etc.
- TeX
- The famous typesetting software and related programs.
- Text Processing
- Utilities to format and print text documents.
- Utilities
- Utilities for file/disk manipulation, backup and archive tools, system monitoring, input systems, etc.
- Version Control Systems
- Version control systems and related utilities.
- Video
- Video viewers, editors, recording, streaming.
- Virtual packages
- Virtual packages.
- Web Software
- Web servers, browsers, proxies, download tools etc.
- X Window System software
- X servers, libraries, window managers, terminal emulators and many related applications.
- Xfce
- Xfce, a fast and lightweight Desktop Environment.