My Debian/Ubuntu packages
One of the many strong points about the Debian distribution (and its derivatives, such as Ubuntu) is that anybody can muster up
their own packages. Some people actually go one step further, and offer their
packages to anybody who wants to benefit from their effort. Following this
custom, here is my collection.
Notice to all previous users:
Because I carelessly waited until the last minute before renewing my OpenPGP key, you may encounter an "invalid
signature" error the next time you run apt update. Manually
downloading and installing the updated fbriere-archive-keyring package
will fix this issue. My apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.
News
- 2024-03-24
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Dropped support for the lunar Ubuntu release.
- 2023-10-29
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Added support for the noble (24.04) Ubuntu release.
- 2023-08-05
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Dropped support for the kinetic Ubuntu release.
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Removed mpv packages for the sid, trixie and
mantic releases, following the release of version 0.36.0.
- 2023-06-10
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Adjusted symlinks following the release of Debian 12
bookworm and added support for trixie.
- 2023-04-29
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Added support for the mantic (23.10) Ubuntu release.
- 2023-04-04
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Dropped support for the stretch Debian release and the
xenial Ubuntu release.
- 2022-10-30
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Added support for the lunar (23.04) Ubuntu release.
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Fixed issue where the fbriere-archive-keyring package was
not actually included in every component.
- 2022-09-14
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Created the choqok component.
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Dropped support for the i386 architecture across all
components. (If you were still using this, please let me know!)
- 2022-09-11
- 2022-07-14
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Tentatively started building twinkle-devel packages for the
armhf and arm64 architectures, as a service towards
Raspberry Pi users. (I can't guarantee I'll keep maintaining both
architectures in the long run, but I'm giving it a try.)
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Removed support for the now-EOL impish release.
- 2022-06-17
- 2022-05-04
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Added support for the kinetic (22.04) Ubuntu release.
- 2022-03-15
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Renamed keyring package to fbriere-archive-keyring (with
fbriere.net-keyring now being a transitional package) and
.sources files to fbriere_COMP.sources,
in an attempt to follow (as best as possible) recommended practices.
- 2022-03-11
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Created the twinkle-devel
component.
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Added a command line to the documentation of each component that
automatically downloads and installs everything.
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Added back support for stretch, with instructions on how
to work around the OpenSSL bug.
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Dropped the recommendation of always installing the misc
component. (The fbriere-archive-keyring package is now
included in every component.)
- 2022-02-20
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Added support for every (non-EOL'ed) Ubuntu release (excluding
trusty, for the same reason as below).
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Revised the installation instructions, in an attempt to make them
somewhat more user-friendly.
- 2022-02-18
Available components
- choqok
- Choqok packages with additional patches
- misc
- Packages that don't belong anywhere else
- mpv
- mpv video player (with added
--sub-fonts-dir option)
- python-qt4
- Python bindings for Qt4, with WebKit enabled
- qbittorrent
- qBittorrent packages compiled with libtorrent 1.2
- twinkle-devel
- Twinkle VoIP SIP phone (development version)
- xfce4-mailwatch-plugin
- Mail watcher for the Xfce4 panel (with additional patches)
- xjdic
- XJDIC Japanese-English dictionary program (with UTF-8 support)
Installation
First, you need to download the
fbriere-archive-keyring
package and install it with dpkg -i.
Then, for each component listed above that you want, visit its page
and download the .sources file corresponding to your current
Debian or Ubuntu release. You should place these files in the
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ directory.
Once everything is in place, simply run apt update. You can now
install the packages you want using your favorite tool (such as
aptitude or Ubuntu Software).