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APT Repositories

Releases of freeDiameter are compiled for your convenience as .deb packages for Debian and Ubuntu distributions, and distributed on this website. In order to use these packages, follow the instructions on this page.

Repository's GPG key

Modern distributions use secure APT signed repositories for packages distribution. This is how you can import the public key of the freeDiameter repository.

$ # First, retrieve the key from the website
$ wget http://www.freediameter.net/packages/repository.key

$ # Optionally, check the key was not tempered with
$ md5sum repository.key
3483b09a2b6a1e882ac55d5d33354358  repository.key
$ # (correct value is in repository.md5sum file)

$ # Finally import this key into APT
$ sudo apt-key add repository.key 
OK

Package repository address

Next step is to add the declaration of the repository to your apt configuration.

If your system has a /etc/apt/sources.list.d folder, it is advised to create a new file inside this folder, for example called freediameter.list. Otherwise, simply add the following content to you /etc/apt/sources.list file.

Debian

  • Debian Lenny (stable):
    ## freeDiameter APT repository
    deb http://www.freediameter.net/packages/debian lenny contrib
    
    ## In order to rebuild the freeDiameter packages, 
    ## you will need backports for lenny also.
    deb-src http://www.freediameter.net/packages/debian lenny contrib
    
  • Debian Squeeze (testing):
    ## freeDiameter APT repository
    deb http://www.freediameter.net/packages/debian squeeze contrib
    deb-src http://www.freediameter.net/packages/debian squeeze contrib
    
  • Debian Sid (unstable):
    ## freeDiameter APT repository
    deb http://www.freediameter.net/packages/debian sid contrib
    deb-src http://www.freediameter.net/packages/debian sid contrib
    

Ubuntu

  • Ubuntu Karmic (9.10):
    ## freeDiameter APT repository
    deb http://www.freediameter.net/packages/ubuntu karmic universe
    deb-src http://www.freediameter.net/packages/ubuntu karmic universe
    
  • Ubuntu Lucid (10.04):
    ## freeDiameter APT repository
    deb http://www.freediameter.net/packages/ubuntu lucid universe
    deb-src http://www.freediameter.net/packages/ubuntu lucid universe
    
  • Ubuntu Maverick (10.10):
    ## freeDiameter APT repository
    deb http://www.freediameter.net/packages/ubuntu maverick universe
    deb-src http://www.freediameter.net/packages/ubuntu maverick universe
    

Using the repository

Once you have configured apt properly, the following commands should work.

$ sudo aptitude update
$ aptitude search freediameter
p   freediameter-accounting-server    - freeDiameter simple Accounting server.
p   freediameter-common               - The libfreeDiameter library.
p   freediameter-daemon               - The freeDiameter daemon.
[...]

You can for example install a Diameter EAP server with:

$ sudo aptitude install freediameter-eap-server

Administration stuff

The scripts and configuration files used to generate this repository can be found at: http://www.freediameter.net/packages/scripts. Please feel free to propose improvements.