Package guide for Debian 13 (Trixie) with KDE Plasma

This is my personal list of Debian packages that I consider essential for my daily workflow. I use it to quickly install them (copy & paste) on a fresh Debian 13 (Trixie) installation. Packages are grouped by category.

1. Anonymity

mat2 torbrowser-launcher

2. Audio

audacity normalize-audio sox lame soundconverter gir1.2-gst-plugins-bad-1.0 abcde kid3

3. Localization (Spanish)

To have the system and main applications in Spanish:

task-spanish-kde-desktop libreoffice-help-es libreoffice-l10n-es hyphen-es mythes-es chromium-l10n firefox-esr-l10n-es-es fortunes-es gimp-help-es tesseract-ocr-spa texlive-lang-spanish kile-l10n hunspell-es krita-l10n

4. Science

geogebra pspp wxmaxima xcas giac-doc

5. Compression

advancecomp arc arj brotli bzip2 bzip3 cabextract gzip innoextract p7zip unp zopfli

📝 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 [yes, I purchased it]) into your home directory (/home/user/).

6. Communications

kontact kdenetwork-filesharing libsmbclient samba samba-common-bin wsdd2 kdeconnect lynx chromium epiphany-browser falkon

6.1. Telegram

It’s recommended to install the Flatpak version, as it gets updated more frequently than the packages in official repositories.

7. Editing and Typography

kbibtex texlive texlive-xetex texlive-science texlive-bibtex-extra texlive-humanities texlive-metapost texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-publishers texlive-latex-extra kile pandoc pandoc-citeproc-preamble pandoc-filter-diagram pandoc-plantuml-filter klatexformula ghostwriter librsvg2-bin cmark cmark-gfm context

7.1. Fonts

fonts-linex fonts-isabella texlive-fonts-extra

• Ibarra Real: must be downloaded manually from external sources.

8. Games

rocksndiamonds enigma kpat kmines supertux

• Heroic: great alternative to Lutris, especially for GOG games.
• Lutris: another solid option for managing game libraries.
• RetroArch: ideal for retro console emulation. You can use the repo version or the official Flatpak.
• Steam: recommended to download the .deb package directly from the official website.

To install and fix dependencies:

$ sudo dpkg -i steam_latest.deb && sudo apt -f install && sudo steamdeps

9. Image

gimp-data-extras gimp-texturize inkscape gifsicle jpegoptim optipng krita krita-gmic kcolorchooser kontrast skanlite skanpage

10. PDF

img2pdf tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-spa pdftk-java ocrmypdf unpaper pdfarranger

11. Programming

umbrello gh python3-venv minify

• BlueJ: often used in academic environments. Install from the official .deb.

12. Networking and Security

• Networking: nmap net-tools
• Security: clamav firewall-config firewalld keepassxc-minimal knockd

13. File systems

dosfstools btrfs-progs ntfs-3g exfatprogs udftools k3b k3b-i18n partitionmanager

14. Utilities and miscellaneous

• Utilities: fastfetch fdupes kamoso kcharselect kdf kdiff3 kompare krename lm-sensors xsensors parallel sqlitebrowser sqlite3 sqlite3-tools tellico curl lshw foliate
• Video: obs-studio
• Fun: fortune-mod

15. Web tools

closure-compiler cssmin csstidy htmlmin tidy yt-dlp yui-compressor webext-ublock-origin-firefox webext-ublock-origin-chromium

16. Third-party software setup

16.1. Zoom

To install Zoom on Debian:

1. Download the package from the official website.
2. Install and fix dependencies:

$ sudo dpkg -i zoom_amd64.deb && sudo apt -f install

16.2. Electronic administration (Spain)

• AutoFirma: requires installing libnss3-tools and pinentry-qt beforehand.
• Electronic ID (DNIe): currently has issues on Trixie due to library name changes.

16.3. Printers

• Brother: install 32-bit dependencies: lib32z1 lib32gcc-s1 lib32stdc++6.
• Epson: download the specific driver from the official website.

16.4. Virtualization

Install virt-manager and virtiofsd. To enable the default network, run:

$ sudo virsh net-start default && sudo virsh net-autostart default

16.5. Wine

Follow the Debian Wiki instructions to enable the 32-bit architecture:

$ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 && sudo apt update

Base packages: wine wine32 wine64 libwine libwine:i386 fonts-wine. For the initial setup:

$ wine winecfg

17. New packages

I’ll keep adding any new packages I discover here.