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Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 59000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.
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I will try that, thank you. Are those just two packages I need to get from backports or are there dependencies and stuff that will come up?
@absurdity_of_it_all You'll want to add the backports repo, and install the relevant packages from there. https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/