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Package searches

Search the DistroWatch database for distributions using a particular package. If you are looking for a distribution with the latest kernel, select "linux" from the drop-down box below and type the version number into the text box next to it. Please note that the best way to obtain the GNOME version is by searching for "nautilus", while KDE is represented by the "kdelibs" package. Apache 2.x is listed as "httpd". As for versioning, if no version number is provided, this page will return any recent versions of the selected package. It is also possible to perform searches for distributions which do not contain a specific package. This returns a list of distributions where the given package is not present on the installation media.

The package version search offers the ability to search for packages which are close to a specific version, exactly equal to a specific version, greater than or less than a given version. The second field in the search form allows visitors to switch between these relations. Most people will probably want to use the like option as it will search for packages close to a given version. When no version is specified, like finds packages close to the latest version. Have fun and let us know how we can improve the search engine!

Search by Distribution Criteria (Simple Search Form)

This section allows you to search for a particular distribution based on certain criteria. Select the criteria from the drop-down and check boxes below and hit the Submit Query button to get a list of known distributions that match your choice.

OS Type
Distribution category
Country of origin
Based on
Not based on
Desktop interface
Architecture
Package management
Release model
Install media size
Install method
Multi-language support
Status (defined)

Search by Distribution Criteria (Advanced Search Form)

The advanced search form allows you to fine tune your search criteria by including multiple items in your search. Once completed, it will also allow you to display the result either as a list of all matching distributions with their descriptions, or in a sorted tabular format.

Operating System Type

All
BSD

Linux

Solaris

Other OS

Distribution category

All
Beginners
Clusters
Data Rescue
Desktop
Disk Management
Docker

Education
Firewall
Forensics
Free Software
Gaming
High Performance Computing
Live Medium

Multimedia
MythTV
NAS
Netbooks
Old Computers
Privacy
Raspberry Pi

Scientific
Server
Security
Source-based
Specialist
Telephony
Thin Client

Country of origin

All
Algeria
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Bhutan
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Brazil
Bulgaria
Cambodia
Canada
Chile
China
Cuba
Czech Republic
Denmark
Ecuador
Egypt

Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Guatemala
Hong Kong
Hungary
India
Indonesia
Iran
Ireland
Isle of Man
Israel
Italy
Japan
Jordan
Latvia
Lithuania
Malaysia

Malta
Mexico
Mongolia
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
Norway
Oman
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Réunion
Romania
Russia
Serbia
Singapore

Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand
Turkey
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
USA
Venezuela
Vietnam

Based on

All
Android
Arch
CentOS
CRUX
Debian
Debian (Stable)
Debian (Testing)
Debian (Unstable)

Fedora
FreeBSD
Gentoo
Independent
KDE neon
KNOPPIX
LFS
Mageia
Mandriva

Manjaro
OpenBSD
openSUSE
PCLinuxOS
Puppy
Red Hat
rPath
sidux
Slackware

SliTaz
Solaris
Ubuntu
Ubuntu (LTS)
Tiny Core
Zenwalk

Desktop environment

All
No desktop
AfterStep
Android
Awesome
Blackbox
bspwm
Budgie
Cinnamon
Consort
Deepin
dwm
Enlightenment

Equinox
Firefox
Fluxbox
flwm
FVWM
GNOME
Hackedbox
i3
IceWM
ion
JWM
KDE
KDE Plasma

Kodi (XBMC)
Lesstif
Lumina
LXDE
LXQt
MATE
Maynard
Metacity
Mezzo
Moblin
Openbox
Pantheon
Pearl

pekwm
Ratpoison
Razor-qt
SLWM
Sugar
Trinity
TWM
Unity
WebUI
WMaker
WMFS
WMI
Xfce

Architecture

All
acorn26
acorn32
alpha
amiga
arc
arm
armv5tel
arm64
armel
armhf
atari
cats
cobalt
dreamcast
emips
evbarm
evbmips

evbppc
evbsh3
ews4800mips
hp300
hp700
hpcarm
hpcmips
hpcsh
hppa
i386
i486
i586
i686
ia64
ibmnws
ix86
luna68k
m68010

m68k
mips
mipsco
mipsel
mvme68k
mvmeppc
news68k
newsmips
ns32k
ofppc
pmax
powerpc
ppc64
ppc64el
prep
ps2
ps3
s390

s390x
sandpoint
sgimips
sh3eb
sh3el
sh5
shark
sparc32
sparc64
sun2
sun3
vax
x68k
x86_64
xbox
zaurus

Package management

All
Other/Unknown

DEB
RPM

Pacman
PET

Portage
TGZ/TXZ

Release model

All

Fixed

Semi-Rolling

Rolling

Install media size

All	Under 100MB	Under 250MB
Under 700MB	Under 2000MB	Over 2000MB

Install method

All

Local

Net-Install

Multi-language support

All	Yes/Other	No
ar	arabic	aragonese
az	Bengali	bg
bn	by	ca
catalan	cn	cs
cz	da	de
dk	Dzongkha	ee
en	es	et
eu	fa	Farsi
fi	fo	fr
galician	gl	gr
Gujarati	Hausa	he
hi	Hindi	hk
hr	hu	id
Igbo	il	in
is	ISO	it
ja	jp	ko
kr	lt	lv
Malayalam	ml	mn
mr	ms	nb
Nepali	nl	nn
no	ph	pl
po	pt	pt_br
Punjabi	ro	rs
ru	se	si
sk	sv	Tamil
te	Telugu	th
tr	tw	ua
uk	valencian	vn
Yoruba	yu	zh
zh_CN	zh_TW

Status

All

Active

Dormant

Discontinued

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