Latest stable releases of developer tools, packaged as .deb and served over apt.
Debian freezes package versions for years. We track upstream and publish new releases within hours —
and we've made the Debian packaging itself fast and easy, so any team can do the same.

Debian stable is an excellent base — but its packages freeze at release time and stay frozen for years. Developer tools move far faster, often releasing weekly, so the versions shipping in apt are routinely months or years behind upstream. Every common workaround trades away something real:

"But Debian Sid already has fresh packages — what are you solving?" Sid is a full rolling development branch: every package on your system moves, all the time. It's the right base for working on Debian itself, and the wrong base for a workstation or server you depend on. Installing a single tool from Sid onto stable usually drags in a newer glibc and half the toolchain with it. And even Sid trails upstream — maintainer upload cycles, NEW-queue reviews, and release freezes regularly add weeks of lag.

What we're solving is deliberately narrower: keep Debian stable as your OS, and get just your dev tools at upstream speed — built as proper packages for the stable suites, so nothing else on your system has to move.

latest-debs exists to close that gap. We do proper Debian packaging of upstream releases in fully public CI and publish to a signed apt repository — so apt install and apt upgrade just work, across every architecture each upstream actually ships for Linux, within hours of each upstream release. Native packages, native tooling, no compromises.

Make Debian packaging fast and easy.

Shipping software for Debian shouldn't require becoming a Debian packager — yet today it does: debhelper, Policy, control/rules files, multi-arch builds, signing, repo hosting. A steep, time-consuming detour when you just want to ship a CLI. Most developers, teams, and orgs skip .deb entirely, and their Debian users pay for it in curl | sh scripts and stale copies.

latest-debs removes that cost:

• One reusable builder — debian-multiarch-builder, a GitHub Action that turns an upstream release into signed, multi-arch .deb packages in a single workflow run. No packaging expertise required.
• Distribution included — releases flow into this signed apt repo automatically. Nothing to host, sign, or babysit.
• Open to your tool — open a package request, or add it to tools.yaml in a PR. Every future upstream release then ships as a .deb within hours.

Everything in this org is built with that same pipeline — the repo is the demo as well as the product.

On Debian or Ubuntu, one line:

curl -fsSL https://latest-debs.github.io/install.sh | sh

Or via extrepo:

sudo extrepo enable latest-debs
sudo apt update
sudo apt install uv eza lazygit ruff bun deno duckdb lazydocker

Or add the repository manually:

sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/latest-debs/apt-repo/main/latest-debs.asc \
  | sudo gpg --dearmor --yes -o /etc/apt/keyrings/latest-debs.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/latest-debs.gpg] https://latest-debs.github.io/apt-repo/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" \
  | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/latest-debs.list
sudo apt update

Status: early days, but working. All four suites (Bookworm, Trixie, Forky, Sid) are live and signed today. The catalog grows one request at a time — 51 tools and counting.

Tool	What it is	Latest .deb	Fresh	Install
uv	Extremely fast Python package & project manager			sudo apt install uv
vite-plus	The unified toolchain for the web (vp CLI)			sudo apt install vite-plus
eza	Modern, maintained ls replacement			sudo apt install eza
lazygit	Simple terminal UI for git			sudo apt install lazygit
ruff	Extremely fast Python linter & formatter			sudo apt install ruff
bun	Fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime & toolkit			sudo apt install bun
deno	Modern runtime for JavaScript & TypeScript			sudo apt install deno
duckdb	Analytical in-process SQL database			sudo apt install duckdb
lazydocker	The lazier way to manage everything docker			sudo apt install lazydocker
ripgrep	Recursively search directories for a regex pattern			sudo apt install ripgrep
fd	Simple, fast alternative to find			sudo apt install fd-find
fzf	Command-line fuzzy finder			sudo apt install fzf
starship	Minimal, fast, customizable shell prompt			sudo apt install starship
just	Handy command runner			sudo apt install just
hyperfine	Command-line benchmarking tool			sudo apt install hyperfine
k9s	Kubernetes CLI to manage your clusters in style			sudo apt install k9s
atuin	Magical shell history			sudo apt install atuin
xh	Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests			sudo apt install xh
yq-go	Portable command-line YAML, JSON & XML processor			sudo apt install yq-go
dust	A more intuitive version of du			sudo apt install du-dust
procs	A modern replacement for ps			sudo apt install procs
bottom	Cross-platform graphical process/system monitor			sudo apt install bottom
bat	A cat(1) clone with wings			sudo apt install bat
zoxide	A smarter cd command for your terminal			sudo apt install zoxide
delta	Syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, grep & blame			sudo apt install git-delta
jj	Git-compatible VCS that is simple and powerful			sudo apt install jj
gitui	Blazing-fast terminal UI for git			sudo apt install gitui
fresh-editor	Terminal-based IDE & text editor - easy, powerful and fast			sudo apt install fresh-editor
nushell	A new type of shell			sudo apt install nushell
dive	Explore each layer of a Docker image			sudo apt install dive
superfile	Fancy, modern terminal file manager			sudo apt install superfile
pnpm	Fast, disk-space-efficient JavaScript package manager			sudo apt install pnpm
act	Run your GitHub Actions locally			sudo apt install act
zed	High-performance multiplayer code editor			sudo apt install zed
rclone	rsync for cloud storage			sudo apt install rclone
k6	Modern load testing tool			sudo apt install k6
difftastic	Structural diff that understands syntax			sudo apt install difftastic
vhs	Your CLI home video recorder			sudo apt install vhs
yazi	Blazing-fast terminal file manager			sudo apt install yazi
zellij	Terminal workspace with batteries included			sudo apt install zellij
neovim	Vim fork focused on extensibility and usability			sudo apt install neovim
gh	GitHub's official command line tool			sudo apt install gh
mise	Dev tools, env vars, task runner			sudo apt install mise
gum	Tool for glamorous shell scripts			sudo apt install gum
fastfetch	Feature-rich, neofetch-like system information tool			sudo apt install fastfetch
buf	The best way of working with Protocol Buffers			sudo apt install buf
sd	Intuitive find & replace CLI (sed alternative)			sudo apt install sd
scc	Very fast, accurate code counter with complexity estimates			sudo apt install scc
trivy	Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets and SBOMs			sudo apt install trivy
helix	A post-modern modal text editor			sudo apt install helix
fish	The user-friendly command line shell			sudo apt install fish

delta, dust, and fd ship under the names git-delta/du-dust/fd-find — Debian's own archive already has packages under their plain names, so ours are disambiguated the same way upstream (or other distros) already do.

Want another tool packaged? Request it — that's how the list grows. Track all open requests under the package-request label.

• Debian: Bookworm (12), Trixie (13), Forky (14/testing), Sid (unstable) — all live
• Ubuntu: Jammy (22.04 LTS), Noble (24.04 LTS), Questing (25.10), Resolute (25.10+) — live
• Architectures: amd64, arm64, armhf, armel, i386, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x, loong64 — whichever each upstream actually publishes a Linux build for, per suite (see each package's repo for its exact list)
• Updates: the repo rebuilds automatically, roughly every 6 hours after an upstream release

All packages are built in public GitHub Actions runs from public upstream sources — no blobs, no private steps. The apt repo is signed with:

ed25519  9329 C48E AEC0 0249 5619  50D4 C34D 4229 518A B96A
uid      latest-debs <latest-debs@users.noreply.github.com>

Verify the key you downloaded before enabling the repo:

gpg --show-keys /etc/apt/keyrings/latest-debs.gpg

Every build is produced by debian-multiarch-builder, a reusable GitHub Action you can inspect and reuse.

Signing is only part of the story — every release also passes through:

• Policy + runtime gate — lintian (Debian's packaging policy checker) plus a smoke test that runs the packaged binary in a container and confirms it reports the expected version. Nothing ships that fails either check.
• Provenance pin — at vet time, the upstream asset's SHA-256 is cross-checked against the vendor's published checksum and pinned; the builder re-verifies those exact bytes on every rebuild, so a release altered after vetting fails the build instead of shipping silently.
• Human gate — every build lands as a draft GitHub release; a maintainer reviews and publishes it by hand. Nothing is auto-published.

See apt-repo's Supply chain & provenance for the full chain.

Is this official Debian? No — unofficial, community packaging. For issues with a tool itself, report upstream; for packaging issues, open an issue on the tool's -debian repo.

How fresh are the packages? A scheduled workflow checks upstream releases and rebuilds; expect new versions within ~6 hours of the upstream tag. The Fresh badge on each package above shows the packaged version and its age as of the last rebuild (updated every 6 hours).

How do I add my favorite tool? Open a package request — name, upstream URL, and license is all we need. Or add an entry to tools.yaml in a PR against apt-repo.

Outreach is the thing we need most right now — the tooling works and the packages exist; what's missing is people bringing them to the projects and developers who'd benefit. If you'd like to sign up for outreach — pitching the packaging service to a project's maintainers, driving package requests, writing about the project, or fielding questions in discussions — see CONTRIBUTING.md.

Packaging fixes, new tools, and build-config reviews are also welcome — see apt-repo for how the pipeline works. If latest-debs saves you time, sponsor the automation.