Debian Package Repositories¶
All Debian based systems use APT as a package management tool. The lists of
repositories are defined in /etc/apt/sources.list
and the .list
files found
in the /etc/apt/sources.d/
directory. Updates can be installed directly
with the apt
command line tool, or via the GUI.
APT sources.list
files list one package repository per line, with the most
preferred source listed first. Empty lines are ignored and a #
character
anywhere on a line marks the remainder of that line as a comment. The
information available from the configured sources is acquired by apt
update
.
/etc/apt/sources.list
¶deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster main contrib
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib
# security updates
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib
In addition, you need a package repository from Proxmox to get Proxmox Backup updates.
During the Proxmox Backup beta phase, only one repository (pbstest) will be available. Once released, an Enterprise repository for production use and a no-subscription repository will be provided.
SecureApt¶
The Release files in the repositories are signed with GnuPG. APT is using these signatures to verify that all packages are from a trusted source.
If you install Proxmox Backup Server from an official ISO image, the verification key is already installed.
If you install Proxmox Backup Server on top of Debian, download and install the key with the following commands:
# wget http://download.proxmox.com/debian/proxmox-ve-release-6.x.gpg -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/proxmox-ve-release-6.x.gpg
Verify the SHA512 checksum afterwards with:
# sha512sum /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/proxmox-ve-release-6.x.gpg
The output should be:
acca6f416917e8e11490a08a1e2842d500b3a5d9f322c6319db0927b2901c3eae23cfb5cd5df6facf2b57399d3cfa52ad7769ebdd75d9b204549ca147da52626 /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/proxmox-ve-release-6.x.gpg
and the md5sum:
# md5sum /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/proxmox-ve-release-6.x.gpg
Here, the output should be:
f3f6c5a3a67baf38ad178e5ff1ee270c /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/proxmox-ve-release-6.x.gpg
Proxmox Backup Beta Repository¶
During the public beta, there is a repository called pbstest
. This one
contains the latest packages and is heavily used by developers to test new
features.
You can access this repository by adding the following line to
/etc/apt/sources.list
:
pbstest
¶deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pbs buster pbstest
If you installed Proxmox Backup Server from the official beta ISO, you should
have this repository already configured in
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/pbstest-beta.list