Defguard APT repository

APT stands for Advanced Package Tool, Debian’s package manager for installing, updating, and removing software via simple commands.

Distribution

The Defguard APT repository provides packages for Debian 12/13 and Ubuntu 22.04/24.04 LTS.

On Debian 12 and Ubuntu 22.04 you have to use the bookworm distribution due to a known issue with GLIBC_2.39 .

Adding the Defguard APT repository

To add the Defguard APT repository, run the following commands in your terminal:

sudo apt update 
sudo apt install -y ca-certificates curl 
#Add official Defguard public GPG key
sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
sudo curl -fsSL https://apt.defguard.net/defguard.asc -o /etc/apt/keyrings/defguard.asc
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/defguard.asc

#Add APT repository
echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/defguard.asc] https://apt.defguard.net/ trixie release-2.0" | \
   sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/defguard.list > /dev/null 

sudo apt update

Or to use the bookworm distribution (on Debian 12 or Ubuntu 22.04):

sudo apt update 
sudo apt install -y ca-certificates curl 
#Add official Defguard public GPG key
sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
sudo curl -fsSL https://apt.defguard.net/defguard.asc -o /etc/apt/keyrings/defguard.asc
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/defguard.asc

#Add APT repository
echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/defguard.asc] https://apt.defguard.net/ bookworm release-2.0" | \
   sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/defguard.list > /dev/null 

sudo apt update

After running these commands, you can install and update Defguard using apt.

After a new release, simply use sudo apt update to update the repository.

Using alternative components

The Defguard APT repository has four components:

• release: for stable releases of v1.x packages

• pre-release: for pre-release versions of v1.x packages

• release-2.0: for stable releases of v2.0 packages

• pre-release-2.0: for pre-release versions of v2.0 packages

For example, if you want to install packages from pre-release, simply change release to pre-release in the installation steps described above, or run the following commands:

echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/defguard.asc] https://apt.defguard.net/ trixie pre-release" | \
   sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/defguard.list > /dev/null 
   
sudo apt update

Installing packages

Defguard Core:

sudo apt install defguard

Defguard Edge:

sudo apt install defguard-proxy

Defguard Gateway:

sudo apt install defguard-gateway

Defguard Client:

sudo apt install defguard-client