Warning: Dotdeb is no longer maintained, and its packages have known security vulnerabilities that will never be fixed. Do not install them. All Dotdeb repositories will be shut down on December 31st, 2026 (see Dotdeb is shutting down on December 31st, 2026).

The instructions below are kept for reference only.

Using Dotdeb is very simple:

1. Add the main repository to your sources.list

Depending on your distribution (Jessie or Wheezy), add these two lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb http://packages.dotdeb.org jessie all
deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org jessie all

or

deb http://packages.dotdeb.org wheezy all
deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org wheezy all

2. Options

If you want to install :

  • Nginx with “full” HTTP2 support (with ALPN negotiation) on Debian 8 “Jessie”, activate the jessie-backports repository, install OpenSSL 1.0.0 ( apt-get install -t jessie-backports libssl1.0.0) and add these two lines too :

    deb http://packages.dotdeb.org jessie-nginx-http2 all
deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org jessie-nginx-http2 all

  • PHP 5.6 on Debian 7 “Wheezy” (without Zend thread safety), add these two lines too :

    deb http://packages.dotdeb.org wheezy-php56 all
deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org wheezy-php56 all

  • PHP 5.6 on Debian 7 “Wheezy” (with Zend thread safety), add these two lines instead :

    deb http://packages.dotdeb.org wheezy-php56-zts all
deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org wheezy-php56-zts all

  • PHP 5.5 on Debian 7 “Wheezy”, add these two lines too :

    deb http://packages.dotdeb.org wheezy-php55 all
deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org wheezy-php55 all

3. Fetch and install the GnuPG key

wget https://www.dotdeb.org/dotdeb.gpg
sudo apt-key add dotdeb.gpg

4. Enjoy

Run apt-get update. You should now be able to install the Dotdeb packages you want with apt-get (or dselect, or aptitude as well…)

Notes :