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📦 apt install lowfi

{IF_ARCHIVED}Official Debian ships lowfi {ARCHIVE_VERSION} — this repo has lowfi {VERSION}. One apt command for Bookworm, Trixie, Forky and Sid; GPG-signed, rebuilt within hours of every release.{ELSE_ARCHIVED}lowfi isn't in the official Debian archives — get lowfi {VERSION} via apt for Bookworm, Trixie, Forky and Sid. GPG-signed, rebuilt within hours of every release.{END_ARCHIVED}

⚡ The short answer. On a stock system apt install lowfi fails outright — lowfi is not in the official Debian or Ubuntu archives at all. Add the deb.griffo.io repository below and sudo apt install lowfi gives you the current release on Debian and Ubuntu alike — currently lowfi 2.0.7 (updated 2026-08-17).

📦 Add the repository, then apt install lowfi

Step 1: Add repository & key

Run the commands
sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://deb.griffo.io/EA0F721D231FDD3A0A17B9AC7808B4DD62C41256.asc | sudo gpg --dearmor --yes -o /etc/apt/keyrings/deb.griffo.io.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/deb.griffo.io.gpg] https://deb.griffo.io/apt $(lsb_release -sc) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/deb.griffo.io.list > /dev/null
sudo apt update
install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://deb.griffo.io/EA0F721D231FDD3A0A17B9AC7808B4DD62C41256.asc | gpg --dearmor --yes -o /etc/apt/keyrings/deb.griffo.io.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/deb.griffo.io.gpg] https://deb.griffo.io/apt $(lsb_release -sc) main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/deb.griffo.io.list > /dev/null
apt update

Step 2: apt install lowfi

sudo apt install -y lowfi
apt install -y lowfi

🔄 How to apt install the latest lowfi

Once the repository is added there is no separate "install latest" command — apt already resolves to the newest version this repository serves, and that is rebuilt within hours of every upstream lowfi release. To move an existing install up to the latest version:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install --only-upgrade lowfi
apt update && apt install --only-upgrade lowfi

Or upgrade everything on the machine at once with sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade. To see which version you would get before installing, run apt policy lowfi.

📋 lowfi versions available right now

Debian

Debian releaseSuitelowfi version
Debian 12 “Bookworm”bookworm2.0.7-1+bookworm
Debian 13 “Trixie”trixie2.0.7-1+trixie
Debian 14 “Forky”forky2.0.7-1+forky
Debian Sidsid2.0.7-1+sid

Ubuntu

Ubuntu releaseSuitelowfi version
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS “Jammy Jellyfish”jammy2.0.7-1+jammy
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS “Noble Numbat”noble2.0.7-1+noble
Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka”questing2.0.7-1+questing

❓ Common questions

Does apt-get install lowfi work too?

Yes. apt and apt-get read the same sources, so sudo apt-get install lowfi is equivalent. apt is the friendlier front-end; apt-get is the stable one to prefer inside scripts.

Why doesn't apt install lowfi work out of the box?

lowfi is not packaged in the official Debian or Ubuntu archives, so a stock system has nothing to install and apt install lowfi fails with "Unable to locate package". Adding this repository gives apt a source that carries lowfi and keeps it current.

Which Debian and Ubuntu releases are supported?

Every currently supported release listed in the table above. The $(lsb_release -sc) in the setup command picks the right suite for the machine you run it on, so the same three lines work everywhere.

Is this repository trustworthy?

It's an unofficial repository maintained by Dario Griffo. Packages are built automatically from official upstream lowfi releases, the packaging is open source at dariogriffo/lowfi-debian, and the whole archive is GPG-signed. Several upstream projects link to it from their official installation docs.

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