Distribution Archives

debian-archive
debian-non-US archive

debian-archive

If you need to access one of the old distributions of Debian, you can find them at the Debian Archives, https://archive.debian.org/debian/.

Releases are stored by their codenames under the dists/ directory.

stretch is Debian 9
jessie is Debian 8.0
wheezy is Debian 7.0
squeeze is Debian 6.0
lenny is Debian 5.0
etch is Debian 4.0
sarge is Debian 3.1
woody is Debian 3.0
potato is Debian 2.2
slink is Debian 2.1
hamm is Debian 2.0
bo is Debian 1.3
rex is Debian 1.2
buzz is Debian 1.1

We have only source code for releases older than bo, and binaries and source code for bo and newer releases. As time goes on we will expire the binary packages for old releases.

If you are using APT the relevant sources.list entries are like:

  deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ hamm contrib main non-free

  deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ bo bo-unstable contrib main non-free

rsync access is available via

rsync.archive.debian.org

The following is a list of mirrors that include the archive:

archive.debian.org (Netherlands): HTTP
archive.kernel.org (United States): HTTP rsync archive.kernel.org::debian-archive/
debian.dynamica.it (Italy): HTTP
debian.ethz.ch (Switzerland): HTTP rsync debian.ethz.ch::debian-archive/
debian.inf.tu-dresden.de (Germany): HTTP rsync debian.inf.tu-dresden.de::debian-archive/
debian.koyanet.lv (Latvia): HTTP rsync debian.koyanet.lv::debian-archive/
debian.snt.utwente.nl (Netherlands): HTTP rsync debian.snt.utwente.nl::debian-archive/
debian.volia.net (Ukraine): HTTP rsync debian.volia.net::debian-archive/
ftp.hosteurope.de (Germany): HTTP
ftp.kaist.ac.kr (Korea): HTTP rsync ftp.kaist.ac.kr::debian-archive/
ftp.ticklers.org (United Kingdom): HTTP rsync ftp.ticklers.org::archive.debian.org/
mirror.eu.oneandone.net (Germany): HTTP rsync mirror.eu.oneandone.net::debian-archive/
mirror.mephi.ru (Russia): HTTP rsync mirror.mephi.ru::debian-archive/
mirror.nl.leaseweb.net (Netherlands): HTTP rsync mirror.nl.leaseweb.net::debian-archive/
mirror.one.com (Denmark): HTTP rsync mirror.one.com::debian-archive/
mirror.truenetwork.ru (Russia): HTTP rsync mirror.truenetwork.ru::debian-archive/
mirrors.accretive-networks.net (United States): HTTP rsync mirrors.accretive-networks.net::debian-archive/
mirrors.advancedhosters.com (United States): HTTP rsync mirrors.advancedhosters.com::debian-archive/
repo.jing.rocks (Japan): HTTP rsync repo.jing.rocks::debian-archive/

In the past, there was software packaged for Debian that could not be distributed in the US (and other countries) due to restrictions on export of cryptography or software patents. Debian maintained a special archive called the non-US archive.

These packages were incorporated into the main archive in Debian 3.1 and the debian-non-US archive is discontinued; it is actually archived now, incorporated into the archive.debian.org archives.

They are still available from the archive.debian.org machine. Available access methods are:

https://archive.debian.org/debian-non-US/
rsync://rsync.archive.debian.org/debian-non-US/

To use these packages with APT, the relevant sources.list entries are like:

  deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-non-US/ woody/non-US main contrib non-free
  deb-src http://archive.debian.org/debian-non-US/ woody/non-US main contrib non-free