Debian 11 Bullseye (KDE) Daily Use and Common Software Installation

I’ve been using Debian 11 recently. I’ve also used other systems before: Ubuntu, Manjaro, Fedora, CentOS - all good, but I’ve always used Debian for servers, so I decided to unify my desktop system as well.

Below are the issues I encountered while using Debian 11. Time period: September 2021. Specific distribution: Debian 11 bullseye. I’m using the testing distribution, which can be called Debian bookworm, as bookworm is the next version codename after bullseye.

System environment: Version info: Debian 11 bullseye testing Desktop environment: KDE

Common software: Chrome Beta Firefox Developer Edition Visual Studio Code Remmina FileZilla (Discover) DBeaver VMware Workstation 16 Pro Joplin XMind WPS Office Photoshop CS6 deepin-wine WeChat deepin-wine WeCom deepin-wine QQ/TIM deepin-wine Sogou Input Method Dr.Web Beta Motrix

Time period: 2021-09

My software selection principles: Channel priority: System software center (Discover) > Official website > Third-party sites Software priority: Cross-platform > Open source > Free > Cracked > Paid Version priority: Development > Beta > Stable

After Debian 11 installation, first grant sudo privileges to the current user, otherwise you cannot perform system upgrades or software installation.

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$ su root
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Enter admin password to switch to root user
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$ nano /etc/sudoers
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Add the following under # User privilege specification (username is the user to grant privileges)
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username ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
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Ctrl+x (exit)
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Y (confirm)

Chrome Beta

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$ sudo apt update
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$ sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-beta_current_amd64.deb

Firefox Developer Edition

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$ sudo tar -jxvf firefox-93.0b9.tar.bz2
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$ sudo mv firefox /opt/

Visual Studio Code (VS Code dev version updates too frequently, Microsoft repo too slow on Debian 11, so installing stable)

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$ sudo dpkg -i code_1.60.2-1632313585_amd64.deb

Remmina

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$ sudo apt update
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$ sudo apt install remmina remmina-plugin-rdp remmina-plugin-secret

FileZilla: Start > Apps > System Discover software center search and download

DBeaver

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$ sudo dpkg -i dbeaver-ce_21.2.1_amd64.deb

VMware Workstation 16 Pro keys ZF3R0-FHED2-M80TY-8QYGC-NPKYF

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$ sudo apt install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)
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$ sudo chmod +x VMware-Workstation-Full-16.1.2-17966106.x86_64.bundle
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$ sudo ./VMware-Workstation-Full-16.1.2-17966106.x86_64.bundle

Joplin - recommended to install via script to fix icon pinning issue

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$ wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/laurent22/joplin/dev/Joplin_install_and_update.sh  bash

XMind

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$ sudo dpkg -i XMind-for-Linux-amd-64bit-11.0.1-202106220606.deb

WPS Office - recommend installing 11.1.0.10161, version 11.1.0.10702 has display scaling issues

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$ sudo dpkg -i wps-office_11.1.0.10161_amd64.deb

Photoshop CS6

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# First use requires adding deepin-wine repository
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$ sudo apt install com.pscs6.deepin

WeChat

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# First use requires adding deepin-wine repository
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$ sudo apt install com.qq.weixin.deepin

WeCom

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# First use requires adding deepin-wine repository
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$ sudo apt install com.qq.weixin.work.deepin

QQ/TIM - current TIM version tends to freeze and close automatically, so I’m using QQ recently

TIM

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# First use requires adding deepin-wine repository
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$ sudo apt install com.qq.office.deepin

QQ

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# First use requires adding deepin-wine repository
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$ sudo apt install com.qq.im.deepin

Sogou Input Method

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$ sudo dpkg -i sogoupinyin_2.4.0.3469_amd64.deb

Dr.Web Linux key Dr.Web Linux stable can use beta key. Not sure why, but beta has lower version number, so I chose stable.

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$ sudo chmod +x drweb-11.1.3-av-linux-amd64.run
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$ sudo ./drweb-11.1.3-av-linux-amd64.run

Some software may have issues during installation, or need cracking - will update when I have time