deb.tmiland.com

A personal APT repository for Debian and Ubuntu (amd64) that tracks a curated set of applications and packages the latest upstream releases — either native .deb release assets or AppImages repackaged as .deb. The repository is regenerated, signed and published hourly by GitHub Actions, and served via GitHub Pages.

Usage

Add the repository and its signing key:

sudo curl -SsL -o /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tmiland.list https://deb.tmiland.com/debian/tmiland.list
curl -SsL https://deb.tmiland.com/debian/KEY.gpg | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/tmiland-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null
sudo apt update

Install any package from the list below, e.g.:

sudo apt install screencloud

Updates arrive through the normal apt upgrade; remove a package with sudo apt remove <package-name>.

Verify the signing key

Key fingerprint: 7C44CFE8E3B971486A2E0A280A2998CB2E6D61E0

Supported Software

The software below can be installed, updated and removed using this repository:

Source	Package Name	Description
	AppFlowy	An Open Source Alternative to Notion
	balena-etcher	Flash OS images to SD cards and USB drives, safely and easily.
	bat	cat(1) clone with wings.
	bitwarden	A secure and free password manager for all of your devices.
	bruno	Opensource API Client for Exploring and Testing APIs
	discord	Chat for Communities and Friends
	dpkg	Debian package management system
	dpkg-repack	Debian package archiving tool
	draw.io	draw.io desktop
	duf	Disk Usage/Free Utility
	fzf	Command-line fuzzy finder
	github-desktop	GitHub Desktop fork with advanced functionality and improvements.
	goose	Goose App
	hugo	A fast and flexible Static Site Generator written in Go.
	hyper	A terminal built on web technologies
	ImHex	ImHex Hex Editor
	joplin	Joplin for Desktop
	libterm-spinner-color-perl	A terminal spinner/progress bar with Unicode, color, and no non-core dependencies.
	logitune	Logitech device configurator for Linux
	marktext	A simple and elegant open-source markdown editor that focused on speed and usability.
	nextcloud-desktop	Nextcloud desktop synchronization client (repackaged from upstream nextcloud/desktop AppImage)
	opencode	The open source coding agent.
	pandoc	general markup converter
	protonmail-bridge	Proton Mail Bridge is a desktop application that runs in the background, encrypting and decrypting messages as they enter and leave your computer.
	rustdesk	A remote control software.
	screencloud	Easy to use screenshot sharing tool (repackaged from upstream olav-st/screencloud AppImage)
	shield-optimizer	Debloat and tune Android TV devices via ADB.
	siyuan	From thought to insight, with agents
	snapweb	Web client for Snapcast
	spotube	Open source extensible music streaming platform and app, based on BYOMM (Bring your own music metadata) concept
	sshpilot	modern, lightweight SSH connection manager
	stirling-pdf	Stirling-PDF Desktop Application
	tabby-terminal	A terminal for a modern age
	teamspeak3-client	VoIP chat for online gaming

Legend

• managed from GitHub releases
• Debian packages
• other source

Packages whose payload exceeds 25 MB are published as small install-stubs: apt install fetches a tiny control-only package whose postinst downloads and installs the real .deb from the release at install time. This keeps the Git repository within GitHub Pages size limits.

Managing packages

Each tracked package is a declarative config in packages/<name>.pkg (a TOML subset):

repo = 'owner/name'        # GitHub repo that publishes releases
asset = 'pkg_.*_all\.deb'  # regex matching the .deb release asset
name = 'apt-name'          # optional: apt package name (defaults to the file name)
package = 'apt-name'       # optional: override apt package name (stub repacks)
keep_versions = 2          # optional: keep only the newest N debs
summary = '...'            # optional: description injected into stubs with an empty upstream control
hide = 'app.desktop'       # optional: desktop file(s) to hide after install (keep a single launcher)
source = 'url'             # optional: track a direct-download URL instead of GitHub releases

To add an app: drop a new .pkg in packages/ and commit — the update workflow picks it up on the next run (hourly, or manually via Actions → Update apt repo → Run workflow).

The workflow checks every package, downloads new versions, regenerates and signs the repo metadata, smoke-tests it with apt, and pushes to master (served via GitHub Pages). Use --force <name> or --force all to rebuild a package (or every package) even when it is already up to date, e.g. after a change to the stub postinst.

One package is special:

• icecat — currently unavailable: the package was an installer-stub that downloads binaries from icecatbrowser.org at install time, and that site is down (and GNU's own releases stopped in 2019). The icecat debs are therefore removed from the repo until a working upstream source exists. update-icecat.sh remains in place to re-publish it when that happens.

  As a free, actively maintained alternative in the same spirit (libre, privacy- hardened, no telemetry), use LibreWolf's official signed apt repository instead:

  sudo apt update && sudo apt install extrepo -y
  sudo extrepo enable librewolf
  sudo apt update && sudo apt install librewolf -y

Credits

• assafmo/ppa
• Hosting your own PPA repository on GitHub

Full write-up on the blog: https://tmiland.com/deb-tmiland-com/

Donations

License

MIT License