Install the Latest Dev Tools on LMDE with apt

            ⚡ The short answer. Yes, deb.griffo.io works on Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE). 63 developer tools install with plain apt on LMDE 7 and LMDE 6, with the same setup command as Debian and Ubuntu: it reads DEBIAN_CODENAME from /etc/os-release and asks for the matching suite, trixie on LMDE 7 (Gigi).
        

LMDE is Linux Mint on a Debian base instead of Ubuntu, which also means it inherits Debian stable's archive, whose developer tools are frozen when each Debian release is made. deb.griffo.io serves the current upstream release of each tool below, built for the Debian release LMDE runs on.

🔍 Which suite your release gets

Release	Built on	Suite	Tools available
LMDE 7 (Gigi)	Debian 13 “Trixie”	`trixie`	63
LMDE 6 (Faye)	Debian 12 “Bookworm”	`bookworm`	61

LMDE sets VERSION_CODENAME to its own name (gigi, faye), which no Debian mirror serves, and puts the Debian release in DEBIAN_CODENAME. The setup command reads DEBIAN_CODENAME first, so on LMDE 7 it asks for trixie and on LMDE 6 for bookworm.

📦 Add the repository

Step 1: Add the 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 $(. /etc/os-release; echo ${DEBIAN_CODENAME:-${UBUNTU_CODENAME:-$VERSION_CODENAME}}) 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 $(. /etc/os-release; echo ${DEBIAN_CODENAME:-${UBUNTU_CODENAME:-$VERSION_CODENAME}}) main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/deb.griffo.io.list > /dev/null
apt update

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Step 2: Install any tool

sudo apt install -y neovim ripgrep fzf

apt install -y neovim ripgrep fzf

To check what the command will pick on your machine before running it: . /etc/os-release; echo ${DEBIAN_CODENAME:-${UBUNTU_CODENAME:-$VERSION_CODENAME}}. It should print one of the suites in the table above.

📋 Every tool available on LMDE

Versions are what the repository serves for trixie right now (updated 2026-10-19). Older releases get the same version wherever the tool is built for them; the last column says which are.

Tool	apt package	Version	LMDE 6
Atuin	`atuin`	18.24.1-2~griffo	✓
ble.sh	`ble.sh`	0.4.0-git20260908.d81fd54-2~griffo	✓
bottom	`btm`	0.14.9-2~griffo	✓
Bun	`bun`	1.4.3-3~griffo	✓
cliamp	`cliamp`	2.3.0-2~griffo	✓
Deno	`deno`	2.9.7-3~griffo	✓
difftastic	`difftastic`	0.70.0-2~griffo	✓
DuckDB	`duckdb`	1.5.6-3~griffo	✓
eza	`eza`	0.23.5-3~griffo	✓
Fastfetch	`fastfetch`	2.66.0-3~griffo	✓
fish	`fish`	4.9.3-2~griffo	✓
Forgejo	`forgejo`	15.0.2-2~griffo	✓
Forgejo Runner	`forgejo-runner`	13.2.0-2~griffo	✓
fresh-editor	`fresh-editor`	0.5.3-2~griffo	✓
fzf	`fzf`	0.74.5-2~griffo	✓
Garage	`garage`	2.4.1-2~griffo	✓
Ghostty	`ghostty`	1.3.1-6~trixie	✓
GitUI	`gitui`	0.28.1-2~griffo	✓
GPU Screen Recorder	`gpu-screen-recorder-cli`	6.1.4-1~trixie	✓
Headscale	`headscale`	0.29.5-2~griffo	✓
Helix	`helix`	25.07.1-3~griffo	✓
herdr	`herdr`	0.9.5-2~griffo	✓
Jujutsu	`jujutsu`	0.46.0-2~griffo	✓
just	`just`	1.59.0-2~griffo	✓
k9s	`k9s`	0.51.0-2~griffo	✓
kitty	`kitty`	0.49.2-2~griffo	✓
lazydocker	`lazydocker`	0.25.2-2~griffo	✓
lazygit	`lazygit`	0.66.2-2~griffo	✓
lazyjira	`lazyjira`	2.19.2-2~griffo	✓
lowfi	`lowfi`	2.0.7-3~griffo	✗
mitmproxy	`mitmproxy`	12.2.3-3~griffo	✓
Neovim	`neovim`	0.12.6-2~griffo	✓
Nushell	`nushell`	0.116.1-2~griffo	✓
Oh My Posh	`oh-my-posh`	31.8.0-2~griffo	✓
rclone	`rclone`	1.75.2-2~griffo	✓
restic	`restic`	0.19.1-2~griffo	✓
rgrc	`rgrc`	0.6.35-2~griffo	✓
ripgrep	`ripgrep`	15.2.0-2~griffo	✓
Ruff	`ruff`	0.17.1-2~griffo	✓
rumdl	`rumdl`	0.3.0-2~griffo	✓
Serie	`serie`	0.10.0-2~griffo	✓
Spotifast	`spotifast`	0.13.3-2~griffo	✓
Starship	`starship`	1.27.0-2~griffo	✓
superfile	`superfile`	1.6.0-2~griffo	✓
Television	`television`	0.15.9-2~griffo	✓
Termusic	`termusic`	0.13.2-3~griffo	✓
TigerBeetle	`tigerbeetle`	0.17.9-2~griffo	✓
tldr	`tldr`	1.13.1-2~griffo	✗
tree-sitter-cli	`tree-sitter-cli`	0.27.1-2~griffo	✓
Uncloud	`uncloud`	0.21.0-2~griffo	✓
Unregistry	`unregistry`	0.4.3-2~griffo	✓
uv	`uv`	0.13.1-2~griffo	✓
viu	`viu`	1.6.1-3~griffo	✓
workmux	`workmux`	0.1.276-2~griffo	✓
Yazi	`yazi`	26.9.1-2~griffo	✓
yq	`yq`	4.54.1-2~griffo	✓
yt-dlp	`yt-dlp`	2026.08.19-2~griffo	✓
ZapZap	`zapzap`	7.5.1-2~griffo	✓
Zed	`zed`	1.24.3-1~griffo	✓
Zellij	`zellij`	0.45.1-2~griffo	✓
Zig	`zig-stable`	0.17.0-2~griffo	✓
ZLS	`zls`	0.16.1-2~griffo	✓
zoxide	`zoxide`	0.10.0-2~griffo	✓

❓ Common questions

Is LMDE handled differently from Linux Mint?

Only in which suite it gets: LMDE is Debian-based, so it reads DEBIAN_CODENAME and gets trixie or bookworm, where Linux Mint is Ubuntu-based and gets noble or jammy. The command you paste is the same.

Is deb.griffo.io an official LMDE repository?

No. It is an unofficial repository maintained by Dario Griffo, not affiliated with LMDE. Every package is built automatically from the official upstream release, the packaging is open source on GitHub, and the archive is GPG-signed.

Does it cost anything?

The repository is a subscription (€15 a year or €150 once) with a free trial. A free mirror, deb-free.griffo.io, serves a smaller set of tools at a delay, with the same setup on this distro.

How do I remove the repository?

Delete /etc/apt/sources.list.d/deb.griffo.io.list and /etc/apt/keyrings/deb.griffo.io.gpg, then run sudo apt update. Tools you installed stay until you apt remove them.

Latest developer tools on Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE)