Package guide for Debian 11 (Bullseye)

March 17, 2022

This is a collection of packages and applications I usually install after a fresh Debian 11 (Bullseye) setup. Grouped by category:

Warning
Debian Bullseye is a very old version of Debian. Use the package guide for Debian Trixie instead.

1. Anonymity

torbrowser-launcher mat2 stegosuite

2. Appearance

sddm-theme-breeze grub-theme-breeze gtk3-engines-breeze breeze

3. Audio

audacity soundkonverter kid3 normalize-audio sox lame

4. Science

pspp kalzium

5. Compression

arj bzip2 cabextract gzip unrar p7zip-full unace xz-utils advancecomp brotli zopfli innoextract arc unp

Note
You need to install the non-free version of unrar (available in the non-free repository) for proper RAR support. To fully enable it, you must copy the .rarreg.key file (provided after purchasing a WinRAR license) into your home directory (/home/user/).

6. Communications

kontact kdenetwork-filesharing libsmbclient samba samba-common-bin kdeconnect lynx thunderbird thunderbird-l10n-es-es firefox-esr-l10n-es-es firefox-esr telegram-desktop enigmail bogofilter webext-ublock-origin kget

7. Backups

rsync unison

8. Editing and Typography

kbibtex lyx scribus chktex gnuhtml2latex latex2rtf noweb rcs writer2latex wv texlive-lang-spanish texlive-pictures texlive-humanities texlive-fonts-extra texlive-luatex texlive-extra-utils kile kile-l10n texlive-xetex

8.1. Fonts

fonts-linex fonts-isabella ttf-mscorefonts-installer

Note
It is recommended to manually install the Oswald font, as it is not included in Debian’s official repositories.

9. Web tools

yui-compressor closure-compiler htmlmin tidy csstidy cssmin

10. Image

gimp-data-extras gimp-gmic gimp-gluas gimp-lensfun gimp-plugin-registry gimp-texturize inkscape blender rawtherapee darktable digikam gimp-help-es gifsicle optipng jpegoptim libjpeg-turbo-progs krita krita-l10n krita-gmic kcolorchooser kontrast kruler skanlite

11. Games

kpat

12. Localization (Spanish)

To have the system and main applications in Spanish:

manpages-es task-spanish-kde-desktop

13. Office

libreoffice-help-es libreoffice-plasma hunspell-es hyphen-es mythes-es libreoffice-base calligra calligra-l10n-es kexi calligraplan

14. PDF

img2pdf pdfshuffler cuneiform tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-spa pdftk qpdf ocrmypdf unpaper pdfarranger

15. Programming

build-essential git automake dia umbrello

16. Networking and Security

clamav firewalld firewall-config

17. File systems

dosfstools btrfs-progs ntfs-3g xfsprogs exfat-utils udftools k3b k3b-i18n partitionmanager squashfs-tools squashfuse

Note
In future Debian versions, exfat-utils will likely be replaced by the more modern exfatprogs.

18. Utilities and miscellaneous

Utilities: xsensors lm-sensors hddtemp tellico kompare kdiff3 fdupes sqlitebrowser sqlite3 krename rclone aspell-es ispanish ispell aspell pinentry-qt cryptsetup neofetch keepassxc krdc xsane calibre vym
Video: obs-studio kdenlive
Fun: fortunes-es cowsay fortune-mod

19. Third-party software configuration

19.1. Electronic administration (Spain)

Before installing AutoFirma and using the electronic ID, you need to adjust the PATH variable:

$ export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

Install required dependency:

$ sudo apt install libnss3-tools

For the electronic ID, install the following packages (pcscd and optionally libpkcs11-helper1 and coolkey):

$ sudo apt install pcscd libpkcs11-helper1 coolkey

19.2. Hardware-specific configuration (Laptop)

To get the Intel AX210 Wi-Fi card working properly, you need to use the kernel from Debian Bullseye Backports.

Add the repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

# Backports
deb [http://deb.debian.org/debian](http://deb.debian.org/debian) bullseye-backports main

Update and install kernel:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install -t bullseye-backports linux-image-amd64

Install firmware (do this after the kernel, not at the same time):

$ sudo apt install -t bullseye-backports firmware-linux

Note
After rebooting, Wi-Fi should work. However, you may still need to fix issues with Bluetooth, which usually fails after waking from suspend.

20. Virtualization (KVM)

Follow the instructions on the Debian Wiki to install KVM.

21. Wine

It is recommended to follow the official instructions on the Debian Wiki for proper installation and to enable the 32-bit architecture.

22. Zotero

When installing this reference manager, it’s preferable to use the official Zotero repository (.deb format) instead of the Flatpak format for better integration.