# Supported tags and respective `Dockerfile` links - [`8.3`, `8`, `jessie`, `latest` (*jessie/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/tianon/docker-brew-debian/blob/0a2d20ca8e26f7bf6a5cc3ce2727eb6cc1894ef9/jessie/Dockerfile) - [`jessie-backports` (*jessie/backports/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/tianon/docker-brew-debian/blob/0a2d20ca8e26f7bf6a5cc3ce2727eb6cc1894ef9/jessie/backports/Dockerfile) - [`oldstable` (*oldstable/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/tianon/docker-brew-debian/blob/0a2d20ca8e26f7bf6a5cc3ce2727eb6cc1894ef9/oldstable/Dockerfile) - [`oldstable-backports` (*oldstable/backports/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/tianon/docker-brew-debian/blob/0a2d20ca8e26f7bf6a5cc3ce2727eb6cc1894ef9/oldstable/backports/Dockerfile) - [`sid` (*sid/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/tianon/docker-brew-debian/blob/0a2d20ca8e26f7bf6a5cc3ce2727eb6cc1894ef9/sid/Dockerfile) - [`6.0.10`, `6.0`, `6`, `squeeze` (*squeeze/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/tianon/docker-brew-debian/blob/0a2d20ca8e26f7bf6a5cc3ce2727eb6cc1894ef9/squeeze/Dockerfile) - [`stable` (*stable/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/tianon/docker-brew-debian/blob/0a2d20ca8e26f7bf6a5cc3ce2727eb6cc1894ef9/stable/Dockerfile) - [`stable-backports` (*stable/backports/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/tianon/docker-brew-debian/blob/0a2d20ca8e26f7bf6a5cc3ce2727eb6cc1894ef9/stable/backports/Dockerfile) - [`stretch` (*stretch/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/tianon/docker-brew-debian/blob/0a2d20ca8e26f7bf6a5cc3ce2727eb6cc1894ef9/stretch/Dockerfile) - [`testing` (*testing/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/tianon/docker-brew-debian/blob/0a2d20ca8e26f7bf6a5cc3ce2727eb6cc1894ef9/testing/Dockerfile) - [`unstable` (*unstable/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/tianon/docker-brew-debian/blob/0a2d20ca8e26f7bf6a5cc3ce2727eb6cc1894ef9/unstable/Dockerfile) - [`7.9`, `7`, `wheezy` (*wheezy/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/tianon/docker-brew-debian/blob/0a2d20ca8e26f7bf6a5cc3ce2727eb6cc1894ef9/wheezy/Dockerfile) - [`wheezy-backports` (*wheezy/backports/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/tianon/docker-brew-debian/blob/0a2d20ca8e26f7bf6a5cc3ce2727eb6cc1894ef9/wheezy/backports/Dockerfile) - [`rc-buggy` (*debian/rc-buggy/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/tianon/dockerfiles/blob/22a998f815d55217afa0075411b810b8889ceac1/debian/rc-buggy/Dockerfile) - [`experimental` (*debian/experimental/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/tianon/dockerfiles/blob/22a998f815d55217afa0075411b810b8889ceac1/debian/experimental/Dockerfile) For more information about this image and its history, please see [the relevant manifest file (`library/debian`)](https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/blob/master/library/debian). This image is updated via pull requests to [the `docker-library/official-images` GitHub repo](https://github.com/docker-library/official-images). For detailed information about the virtual/transfer sizes and individual layers of each of the above supported tags, please see [the `debian/tag-details.md` file](https://github.com/docker-library/docs/blob/master/debian/tag-details.md) in [the `docker-library/docs` GitHub repo](https://github.com/docker-library/docs). # What is Debian? Debian is an operating system which is composed primarily of free and open-source software, most of which is under the GNU General Public License, and developed by a group of individuals known as the Debian project. Debian is one of the most popular Linux distributions for personal computers and network servers, and has been used as a base for several other Linux distributions. > [wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian) ![logo](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/docker-library/docs/b449be7df57e9ed9086bb5821bfb5d6cdc5d67a4/debian/logo.png) # About this image The `debian:latest` tag will always point the latest stable release (which is, at the time of this writing, `debian:jessie`). Stable releases are also tagged with their version (ie, `debian:8` is an alias for `debian:jessie`, `debian:7` is an alias for `debian:wheezy`, etc). The rolling tags (`debian:stable`, `debian:testing`, etc) use the rolling suite names in their `/etc/apt/sources.list` file (ie, `deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian testing main`). ## `/etc/apt/sources.list` The mirror of choice for these images is [httpredir.debian.org](http://httpredir.debian.org) so that it's as close to optimal as possible, regardless of location or connection. ```console $ docker run debian:jessie cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie main deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-updates main deb http://security.debian.org jessie/updates main ``` # Supported Docker versions This image is officially supported on Docker version 1.9.1. Support for older versions (down to 1.6) is provided on a best-effort basis. Please see [the Docker installation documentation](https://docs.docker.com/installation/) for details on how to upgrade your Docker daemon. # User Feedback ## Documentation Documentation for this image is stored in the [`debian/` directory](https://github.com/docker-library/docs/tree/master/debian) of the [`docker-library/docs` GitHub repo](https://github.com/docker-library/docs). Be sure to familiarize yourself with the [repository's `README.md` file](https://github.com/docker-library/docs/blob/master/README.md) before attempting a pull request. ## Issues If you have any problems with or questions about this image, please contact us through a [GitHub issue](https://github.com/tianon/docker-brew-debian/issues). You can also reach many of the official image maintainers via the `#docker-library` IRC channel on [Freenode](https://freenode.net). ## Contributing You are invited to contribute new features, fixes, or updates, large or small; we are always thrilled to receive pull requests, and do our best to process them as fast as we can. Before you start to code, we recommend discussing your plans through a [GitHub issue](https://github.com/tianon/docker-brew-debian/issues), especially for more ambitious contributions. This gives other contributors a chance to point you in the right direction, give you feedback on your design, and help you find out if someone else is working on the same thing.