Distribution Archives

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

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

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

As time goes on we will expire the binary packages for old releases. Currently we have binaries for squeeze, lenny, etch, sarge, woody, potato, slink, hamm and bo available, and only source code for the other releases.

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

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

or

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

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

archive-gretchaninov.debian.org (Canada): HTTP

archive-klecker.debian.org (Netherlands): HTTP

archive-sibelius.debian.org (United Kingdom): HTTP

archive.debian.org: HTTP rsync archive.debian.org::debian-archive/

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.gtisc.gatech.edu (United States): HTTP rsync debian.gtisc.gatech.edu::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.mirror.cambrium.nl (Netherlands): HTTP rsync debian.mirror.cambrium.nl::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.harukasan.org (Korea): HTTP rsync ftp.harukasan.org::debian-archive/

ftp.hosteurope.de (Germany): HTTP

ftp.kaist.ac.kr (Korea): HTTP rsync ftp.kaist.ac.kr::debian-archive/

ftp.riken.jp (Japan): HTTP rsync ftp.riken.jp::debian-archive/

ftp.ticklers.org (United Kingdom): HTTP rsync ftp.ticklers.org::archive.debian.org/

hanzubon.jp (Japan): HTTP rsync hanzubon.jp::debian-archive/

mirror.eu.oneandone.net (Germany): HTTP rsync mirror.eu.oneandone.net::debian-archive/

mirror.linux.pizza (Sweden): HTTP rsync mirror.linux.pizza::mirror/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/

mirrors.up.pt (Portugal): HTTP rsync mirrors.up.pt::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:

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