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X2Go Packages for Debian GNU/Linux

To get started you'll need to configure your local system to access the official X2Go Debian repository. Please keep in mind that this installation manual will guide you through the installation on a Debian wheezy (jessie, stretch, buster, bullseye, sid) system. Only the i386 and amd64 architectures are supported. For armhf, see Instructions for Raspbian GNU/Linux.

Exceptions:

Adding this Repository to Your Package System

Bootstrapping the Repository GPG Keys

X2Go Packages for Debian and the repository metadata are signed with a GPG key to counter Man-in-the-Middle attacks. If you install X2Go components for the first time on a machine, you will have to bootstrap the repository and package signing key first in order for apt to validate the downloaded repository metadata and use it.

Please switch to a user which has administrator privileges on your system in your preferred command line client: 

su -

or 

sudo -s

The following command will ensure that your system will be able to work with the repository archive key. 

$ apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com E1F958385BFE2B6E

Adding the Actual Repository

Please add the file x2go.list to the folder /etc/apt/sources.list.d/. This can be done by using your preferred editor.

If you have not gotten a directory named /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ add the lines to /etc/apt/sources.list. 
$ editor /etc/apt/sources.list.d/x2go.list

Then add the X2Go repository (binaries and sources) as a couple of new lines (example for Debian buster):

x2go.list
# X2Go Repository (release builds)
deb http://packages.x2go.org/debian buster extras main
# X2Go Repository (sources of release builds)
deb-src http://packages.x2go.org/debian buster extras main

# X2Go Repository (Saimaa ESR builds)
#deb http://packages.x2go.org/debian buster extras saimaa
# X2Go Repository (sources of Saimaa ESR builds)
#deb-src http://packages.x2go.org/debian buster extras saimaa

# X2Go Repository (nightly builds)
#deb http://packages.x2go.org/debian buster extras heuler
# X2Go Repository (sources of nightly builds)
#deb-src http://packages.x2go.org/debian buster extras heuler

Edit this new data and make sure to uncomment desired components and comment non-desired components. Only one group may be active at a given time.

While we do offer pseudo-codenames like oldstable, stable, testing and unstable for convenience, you should not use them. Our pseudo-codename setup is not guaranteed to be in sync with Debian's releases, so using the stable codename might mean that you will actually get packages for what Debian calls oldstable after a new Debian distro release for a considerable amount of time.
Switching between components usually requires uninstalling all X2Go packages first! The only upgrade path that is considered somewhat safe is main (release packages) to heuler (nightly packages), but there are no guarantees regarding the stability or usefulness of nightly packages.

Adding the x2go Repository with extrepo on debian

$ sudo apt install extrepo
$ sudo extrepo enable x2go

Synchronize the Newly Added Repository's Metadata

Please perform an update of your APT package database: 

$ apt-get update
If you were unable to bootstrap the repository GPG key previously, apt-get will fail to validate the signatures and discard the downloaded repository metadata.

Not being able to verify signatures means that any content downloaded from the remote location could be injected/offered by a malicious third party and need not come from the X2Go Project. This includes repository metadata and any packages downloaded from unauthenticated repositories. Installing the x2go-keyring package from an unauthenticated repository bears the chance that this is not our package but a malicious third-party one which will not contain our public keys. This holds for all packages installed from this repository, now and later.

You can bypass apt's internal checks if you understand the implications and are ready to take the risk by once using: 

$ apt-get update --allow-insecure-repositories

Otherwise, please try to first fetch the key again as outlined in the bootstrapping instructions.

After the update you should be able to access the X2Go packages via the apt command family. As a first action you should install our x2go-keyring package and refresh the apt cache: 

$ apt-get install x2go-keyring && apt-get update

Post-Addition Test

Now you can search for X2Go related packages that are now available for your APT system: 

$ apt-cache search x2go

Congratulations, you are now able to access the X2Go packages. You may continue by installing x2goserver, x2goclient or pyhoca-gui or any other of the available packages.

Mirroring this Repository

The packages in this repository can be mirrored via rsync: 

rsync -avP packages.x2go.org::debian </dest/path/of/local/mirror/debian>