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Debian packaging for Stremio client and engine variants that aren't (yet, or ever) in Debian's own archive.

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Stremio is now part of Debian

Debian's own stremio (the GTK4/libadwaita/WebKitGTK6 client) was accepted into Debian unstable on 2026-09-24. It is the recommended client. The Qt5 and CEF clients this repository used to ship are kept here, renamed stremio-qt5 and stremio-cef, for archival purposes only: use one of them only if you find it performs better on your system than Debian's official stremio.

Client Status Notes
stremio (Debian) Official From Debian's own archive (unstable), not from this repository
stremio-cef (GTK4/CEF, was stremio-gtk) Archival Use only if it performs better for you than Debian's stremio (Debian sid only)
stremio-qt5 (Qt5, was stremio) Archival Use only if it performs better for you than Debian's stremio
stremio-qt6 Experimental Work in progress, not recommended

Option A: Debian's official stremio (recommended)

On Debian unstable (sid) with the contrib component enabled (for stremio-server-installer, which sets up the streaming server). This repository is not needed:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install stremio stremio-server-installer

On trixie, bookworm or Ubuntu, Debian's stremio is not in your release yet: wait for it, or use option B in the meantime (don't mix unstable packages into a stable system).

Already using this repository?

  1. Upgrade (any release). Moves stremio to stremio-qt5 and stremio-gtk to stremio-cef; the old names stay as empty transitional packages. It has to be full-upgrade (plain upgrade keeps them back): 
    sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade
  2. Switch to Debian's stremio (sid). Pin this repository first (see option B, step 3): without the pin, the next full-upgrade takes you back to this repository's transitional stremio, whose version number is higher. apt asks you to confirm a downgrade (from the 4.4.181 transitional package to Debian's 1.2.0), which is expected: 
    sudo apt update
sudo apt install stremio/unstable
sudo apt-mark manual stremio
  3. Keep or drop the archived clients. To keep one, mark it manually installed before cleaning up, or autoremove may take it: 
    sudo apt-mark manual stremio-qt5    # and/or stremio-cef
sudo apt autoremove
    To drop them: sudo apt remove stremio-qt5 stremio-cef && sudo apt autoremove.

More detail, including how to leave this repository entirely, on debian.vejeta.com.

stremio-server is deprecated. Debian's stremio-server-installer (contrib) does the same job. It is unstable-only for now, so this repository keeps publishing stremio-server for trixie/bookworm until Debian's version reaches those releases.

Option B: this repository (archived clients)

Only if stremio-qt5 or stremio-cef performs better on your system than Debian's stremio.

# 1. Add the GPG key
wget -qO - https://debian.vejeta.com/key.gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/stremio-debian.gpg

# 2. Add the repository (choose your distribution: sid, testing, trixie, bookworm, noble)
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/stremio-debian.gpg] https://debian.vejeta.com sid main non-free" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/stremio.list

# 3. Pin it below Debian, so Debian's own packages always win where both provide one
printf 'Package: *\nPin: origin debian.vejeta.com\nPin-Priority: 100\n' | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/debian-vejeta-com.pref

# 4. Install
sudo apt update
sudo apt install stremio-qt5    # Qt5 client, any release
sudo apt install stremio-cef    # CEF client, Debian sid only

Supported Distributions:

  • Debian sid (unstable) - stremio-cef + stremio-qt5 + Qt6 client (experimental)
  • Debian 13 (trixie) - stremio-qt5 + Qt6 client (experimental)
  • Debian testing - stremio-qt5 only
  • Debian 12 (bookworm) - stremio-qt5 only
  • Ubuntu 25.04 (plucky) - Qt6 client (experimental)

Package Components

stremio-cef (main) - Debian sid only

Property Value
License GPL-3.0-only
Architecture amd64
Distribution Debian sid only
Upstream github.com/Stremio/stremio-linux-shell
Packaging salsa.debian.org/mendezr/stremio-cef

Renamed from stremio-gtk on 2026-09-24 once Debian's own stremio became a GTK4 client too, making the old "-gtk" suffix meaningless (the real difference is the renderer: CEF here, WebKitGTK6 in Debian's own package).

Status: archival. Debian's own stremio is the recommended client. Use stremio-cef only if you find it performs better on your system than Debian's stremio (for example, where the CEF renderer runs better on your hardware than WebKitGTK6).

Dependencies (installed automatically):

  • libcef<N> - CEF runtime library
  • libcef-common - CEF locales and resources
  • librust-cef-dev - Rust CEF bindings
  • librust-cef-dll-sys-dev - Rust CEF FFI bindings
  • stremio-server-installer (Recommends; from Debian) or this repo's deprecated stremio-server

brow6el (main) - Debian sid only

Property Value
License MIT
Architecture amd64
Distribution Debian sid only
Upstream codeberg.org/janantos/brow6el
Packaging salsa.debian.org/mendezr/brow6el

A full-featured terminal web browser built on CEF. Renders web pages as graphics directly in the terminal using Sixel or Kitty image protocols. Features a vim-inspired modal interface with bookmarks, user scripts, DNS-over-HTTPS, and proxy support.

Dependencies (installed automatically):

  • libcef<N> - CEF runtime library
  • libcef-common - CEF locales and resources

Rust CEF Bindings (main) - Debian sid only

Package Description License
librust-cef-dll-sys-dev Rust FFI bindings to CEF Apache-2.0 OR MIT
librust-cef-dev Rust high-level bindings to CEF Apache-2.0 OR MIT

These are build and runtime dependencies for stremio-cef. They are built from the cef-rs crates using debcargo with Debian-specific patches to link against system CEF from libcef-dev.

stremio-qt6 (main) - Experimental Qt6 Client

Property Value
License GPL-3.0-or-later
Architecture amd64, arm64
Distribution Debian trixie, sid; Ubuntu plucky (25.04)
Status Experimental
Upstream github.com/vejeta/stremio-shell (qt6-migration)
Packaging salsa.debian.org/mendezr/stremio-qt6

Note: This is an experimental Qt6 port intended as a workaround for users who prefer KDE/Plasma or Qt-based desktop environments and want a non-deprecated Qt client. Not recommended yet — prefer Debian's own stremio, or stremio-cef/stremio-qt5 from this repo. On sid and Ubuntu, the Qt6 version supersedes stremio-qt5 due to its higher version number.

stremio-qt5 (main) - Qt5 Client (archival)

Property Value
License GPL-3.0-or-later
Architecture amd64, arm64
Distribution All (bookworm, trixie, testing, sid)
Status Archival
Upstream github.com/Stremio/stremio-shell
Packaging salsa.debian.org/mendezr/stremio-qt5

Renamed from stremio on 2026-09-24, since Debian's own stremio package now uses that name for the WebKitGTK6 rewrite. Kept for archival purposes: use it only if you find it performs better on your system than Debian's official stremio.

stremio-server (non-free) - Deprecated

Property Value
License Proprietary
Architecture all (Node.js)
Distribution trixie, bookworm (kept until Debian's replacement reaches those suites)
Upstream dl.strem.io/server
Packaging salsa.debian.org/mendezr/stremio-server

Downloads and installs Stremio's streaming server (BitTorrent, HLS transcoding, casting). Debian's own stremio-server-installer (contrib) now does the same job the official way; as of this writing it's only in unstable, so we keep publishing ours for trixie/bookworm in the meantime. Prefer Debian's on sid.

CEF Packages (main) - Debian sid only

Package Description
libcef<N> CEF runtime library (soname-versioned; <N> is the current Chromium major)
libcef-dev Development headers
libcef-common Locales, PAK files, runtime resources

CEF packages are required by stremio-cef and brow6el, and are installed automatically as dependencies. They are built from Debian's chromium packaging (cef branch), so they track the latest Chromium and inherit its security fixes. The current version is shown by the chromium (cef) badge at the top of this README.

Release Strategy

This repository uses separate releases for different package groups:

Release Tag Packages Distribution
v* (e.g., v5.0.0) stremio-qt5 (+ stremio transitional), stremio-server All
stremio-cef-* (e.g., stremio-cef-1.0.0-beta.13.ds-8) stremio-cef (+ stremio-gtk transitional), stremio-server, librust-cef-dev, librust-cef-dll-sys-dev sid only
cef-* (e.g., cef-151.0.7922.71) libcef<N>, libcef-common, libcef-dev sid only
brow6el-* (e.g., brow6el-0.3.4-1) brow6el sid only

For users: The APT repository at debian.vejeta.com combines all packages automatically. Just apt install what you need.

Debian Submission Status

stremio - Accepted (not this repo's build)

ITP: Bug #943703 — accepted 2026-09-24 as the GTK4/libadwaita/WebKitGTK6 rewrite, version 1.2.0+ds-1. Installed directly from Debian's own archive; this repository does not build or publish it.

stremio-cef - Not headed for Debian (archival)

ITP: Bug #1119815 (filed for stremio-gtk), closed

Upstream replaced CEF with WebKitGTK 6, and that version is what entered Debian as stremio. stremio-cef (upstream's last CEF release, 1.0.0-beta.13) stays in this repository for archival purposes only.

Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) - Active ITP

ITP: Bug #915400

  • Target: Debian main archive
  • License: BSD-style (DFSG-compliant)
  • Status: Built as a build profile of the Debian Chromium package (cef branch)

brow6el - Active ITP

ITP: Bug #1135705

  • Target: Debian main archive
  • License: MIT (DFSG-compliant)
  • Status: Packaging complete, seeking sponsorship
  • Dependencies: Requires CEF packages

stremio-qt5 - Superseded, not seeking sponsorship

Previously filed as Bug #943703 under the name stremio; that ITP is now closed, fulfilled by Debian's own WebKitGTK6-based stremio rather than this Qt5 codebase. stremio-qt5 is kept published here for users who want it, but isn't itself headed for the Debian archive.

Repository Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│     Canonical Sources (Salsa Debian GitLab)             │
│  salsa.debian.org/mendezr/stremio-qt5                   │
│  salsa.debian.org/mendezr/stremio-qt6                   │
│  salsa.debian.org/mendezr/stremio-server                │
│  salsa.debian.org/mendezr/stremio-cef                   │
│  salsa.debian.org/mendezr/chromium (cef branch)         │
│  salsa.debian.org/mendezr/rust-cef-dll-sys              │
│  salsa.debian.org/mendezr/rust-cef                       │
└────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────┘
                     │ Auto-Sync
                     ▼
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│          GitHub Repository (Build System)               │
│      github.com/vejeta/stremio-debian                   │
│                                                         │
│  • GitHub Actions workflows                             │
│  • Automated package builds                             │
│  • GPG signing                                          │
│  • APT repository generation                            │
└────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────┘
                     │
       ┌─────────────┴─────────────┐
       ▼                           ▼
┌──────────────┐          ┌────────────────┐
│GitHub Releases│         │ GitHub Pages   │
│              │          │                │
│ .deb files   │          │ APT Repository │
│ Download stats│         │ debian.vejeta  │
└──────────────┘          │     .com       │
                          └────────────────┘

Build Status

Component License Distribution Architecture Status
stremio-cef GPL-3.0-only sid amd64 Archival
stremio-qt6 GPL-3.0+ trixie, sid, plucky amd64, arm64 Experimental
stremio-qt5 GPL-3.0+ all amd64, arm64 Archival
stremio-server Proprietary trixie, bookworm all Deprecated
libcef<N> BSD-3-Clause sid amd64 Active
libcef-common BSD-3-Clause sid all Active
librust-cef-dll-sys-dev Apache-2.0 OR MIT sid amd64 Active
librust-cef-dev Apache-2.0 OR MIT sid amd64 Active
brow6el MIT sid amd64 Active

For Developers

Building Locally

# Clone repository
git clone --recursive https://github.com/vejeta/stremio-debian.git
cd stremio-debian

# Build stremio-cef (requires Debian sid + CEF packages)
cd stremio-cef
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

# Build Qt6 client (requires Debian sid or Ubuntu noble)
cd ../stremio-qt6
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

# Build Qt5 client
cd ../stremio-qt5
QT_DEFAULT_MAJOR_VERSION=5 dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

# Build stremio-server
cd ../stremio-server
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

Contributing

  1. Packaging Changes: Submit to Salsa repositories

  2. Build System: Submit to GitHub repository

  3. Issues: Report at GitHub Issues

Support

Community

Acknowledgments

  • Stremio Team: For creating Stremio and developing stremio-linux-shell (stremio-cef) and the official Debian stremio package
  • Debian Community: For packaging standards and infrastructure
  • GitHub: For free hosting, CI/CD, and unlimited bandwidth
  • CEF Project: For Chromium Embedded Framework

Last updated: 2026-09-24

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This repo contains a pipeline workflow to publish Debian packaging in an unofficial Debian Repository. Published packages: Stremio media center modernized for current Debian with automated builds and repository hosting. This project also publishes libcef (chromium-embedded-framework debian packages)

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