Installing FOSSology on Debain¶

Packages for deb based distributions are available from different sources, depending on release. Consult the appropriate instructions below for the line to add to your /etc/apt/sources.list file.

After you apt-get install, make sure you apt-cache show fossology and read the package description, which will tell you how to run it. You can also look at the doc files in /usr/share/doc/fossology*

Debian squeeze (currently stable)¶

FOSSology 2.0 debs, produced by the FOSSology team. These debs have not yet been submitted to debian upstream. Older versions of FOSSology are available from the debian and ubuntu repositories. To use the FOSSology produced debs add the line below to your /etc/apt/source.list file.

deb http://fossology.org/debian/2.0/squeeze ./

Debian sid (currently testing)¶

FOSSology 2.0 debs, produced by the FOSSology team. These debs have not yet been submitted to debian upstream. Older versions of FOSSology are available from the debian and ubuntu repositories. To use the FOSSology produced debs add the line below to your /etc/apt/source.list file.

deb http://fossology.org/debian/2.0/sid ./

Debian wheezy (unstable)¶

The latest version of fossology is not available in wheezy. Use the fossology debs.