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====== Using Debian Backports ====== With LMDE2, you're running **//Debian stable//**, which is great for reliability. Sometimes though, you might want to install software that is more recent than the version available in the stable repository (or that is not even available there for that matter). Those could be available in the **//Backports//** packages. You can learn more about this on [[https://wiki.debian.org/Backports|the backports page of the Debian wiki]]. Let's just say that //Backports// are packages recompiled from the //Testing// (or sometimes even //Unstable//) Debian repos, so they will run without new libraries.