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Package guide for Debian 11 (Bullseye)

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

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

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

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:

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:

# Backports
deb 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 (after the kernel):

sudo apt install -t bullseye-backports firmware-linux

Note: After rebooting, Wi-Fi should work. Bluetooth may still need fixing, especially after waking from suspend.

20. Virtualization (KVM)

Follow the official instructions on the Debian Wiki:
https://wiki.debian.org/KVM

21. Wine

Follow the official installation guide on the Debian Wiki:
https://wiki.debian.org/Wine

22. Zotero

For better integration, it’s recommended to use the official .deb repository instead of Flatpak:
https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-deb

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