Debian
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: 990
Update the list of packages:
# apt update
Install the kernel headers and other dependencies:
# apt install --yes dpkg-dev linux-headers-$(uname -r) linux-image-amd64
Install the zfs packages:
# apt-get install zfs-dkms zfsutils-linux
