Debian images: installer images, live images, cloud images

Last updated: 9th November 2024

Multiple things here

• Latest stable Debian release: Bookworm (currently version 12.8.0)
  • Installer images for all architectures (individual small CDs up to full sets of DVDs and BDs)
  • Live images for amd64
  • Cloud images for multiple environments
• Regular builds of testing / (what will be Trixie)
  • Daily builds of installer images for all architectures (small CDs only)
  • Weekly builds of installer images for all architectures (some CDs, full sets of DVDs and BDs)
  • Weekly builds of live images for amd64
• Older builds
• We keep copies of lots of the older releases in the archive directory
• Misc and "unofficial" stuff
  • cd-sources contains packages and matching sources for various things used to make the CDs
  • snapshot and snapshot-amd64 contain snapshot copies of the Debian archive, used by jigdo
  • ports contains installer images for the non-release "ports" architectures
  • unofficial contains a mix of things:
    • Kenshi Muto's backport CD images
    • experimental / test images
    • custom images (e.g. created for magazine cover discs)
    • some non-free bits such as CDs including non-free firmware

All the installer images are distributed as ISO and jigdo files. Please use jigdo if you can, as it significantly reduces the load on our servers and it may greatly speed up your download too. The official release images are also normally available via bittorrent.

Problems?

If you encounter any problems with these images, please check the Debian CDs FAQ. The most common complaint at the moment is about wrongly-sized or corrupt DVD ISO images, which is normally a bug in your http download program.

If your problem is not covered by the above FAQ, please:

1. First check to see if other people have already reported it in the mailing list archive at https://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/
2. If not, report it to the [email protected] mailing list.

Who are we?

The Debian Images Team is a small team of people working on creating, testing and distributing Debian images for you. For more information about the team and how it all works, see the Debian wiki page about us.