Offical ZFS on Linux DKMS style packages are available from the Debian GNU/Linux repository for the following configurations. The packages previously hosted at archive.zfsonlinux.org will not be updated and are not recommended for new installations.
Debian Releases: Stretch (oldstable), Buster (stable), and newer (testing, sid) Architectures: amd64
For Debian Buster, ZFS packages are included in the contrib repository.
If you want to boot from ZFS, see [[Debian Buster Root on ZFS]] instead. For troubleshooting existing installations on Stretch, see [[Debian Stretch Root on ZFS]].
The backports repository often provides newer releases of ZFS. You can use it as follows:
Add the backports repository:
# vi /etc/apt/sources.list.d/buster-backports.list
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib
# vi /etc/apt/preferences.d/90_zfs
Package: libnvpair1linux libuutil1linux libzfs2linux libzpool2linux spl-dkms zfs-dkms zfs-test zfsutils-linux zfsutils-linux-dev zfs-zed
Pin: release n=buster-backports
Pin-Priority: 990Update the list of packages:
# apt updateInstall the kernel headers and other dependencies:
# apt install --yes dpkg-dev linux-headers-$(uname -r) linux-image-amd64Install the zfs packages:
# apt-get install zfs-dkms zfsutils-linux