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Features and included software >https://tails.net/doc/about/features/index.en.html
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Additionally, you can install in Tails any other software available in Debian. >To install additional software automatically when starting Tails, use the >Additional Software feature of the Persistent Storage. >https://tails.net/doc/persistent_storage/additional_software/index.en.html >...
Installing additional software
Installing additional software
Which additional software can I install in Tails?
Be careful about what you install
Examples of additional useful software
Language packages and dictionaries
Installing additional software
Installing additional software automatically when starting Tails
Using additional software
Additional configuration
Network access
Checking your list of additional software
Removing additional software
Freeing space in your Persistent Storage
Configuring additional APT repositories (for advanced users)
Which additional software can I install in Tails?
Tails includes a limited set of applications but you can install more software.
This software is distributed in packages that are made available from the Debian
repositories, which are similar to an app store.
To know which packages are available in Debian:
Browse locally with the Synaptic Package Manager:
When starting Tails, set up an administration password.
Choose Apps ? System Tools ? Synaptic Package Manager.
Wait until Synaptic finishes downloading new package information from the Debian
servers.
You can:
Browse the packages by sections from the left sidebar.
Search on titles and descriptions of packages with the Search button.
Search the Internet for alternatives to other software.
For example: "debian alternatives to photoshop".
Ask a friend who is knowledgeable about Linux.
Search the Debian website.
Be careful about what you install
The packages included in Tails are carefully tested for security. Installing >additional packages might break the security built into Tails. For example, installing
OpenVPN might modify the firewall rules that Tails uses to force network traffic to go
through Tor.
If you are unsure:
Packages that use the network need to be configured to go through Tor. They are
otherwise blocked from accessing the network.
Some software might, for example, modify the firewall and break the security built
into Tails. But other software like games or office tools are probably fine.
Software not officially included in Tails might have not been tested for security.
We also cannot provide support or documentation for it.
Only applications that are packaged for Debian can be installed and they are under
public scrutiny.
Examples of additional useful software
VLC, a multimedia player with advanced features.
Pitivi, a video editor.
Scribus, a page layout application.
GNOME Camera, from the gnome-snapshot package, an application to take pictures and
videos from your webcam.
Mumble, a voice chat application.
Calibre, an EPUB reader and library manager.
GtkHash, a utility to calculate the checksum of files.
Language packages and dictionaries
Replace
with the code for your language. For example, vi for Vietnamese.
Tails already includes language packages and dictionaries for Arabic, German, Spanish,
Farsi, French, Hindi, Bahasa Indonesia, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, and
Simplified Chinese.
LibreOffice language package: libreoffice-l10n-
List of available LibreOffice language packages
Thunderbird language package: thunderbird-l10n-
List of available Thunderbird language packages
Hunspell dictionary: hunspell-
The Hunspell dictionaries are used for spell-checking by Tor Browser, LibreOffice,
Thunderbird, and many other applications.
List of available Hunspell dictionaries
Installing additional software
To install a package using Synaptic:
When starting Tails, set up an administration password.
Choose Apps ? System Tools ? Synaptic Package Manager.
Click Search and search for the name of the package.
Right-click (on Mac, click with two fingers) on the name of the package in the
search results and choose Mark for Installation.
Synaptic calculates the additional changes for your package to work. Click Mark to
confirm those changes.
Click Apply to download, install, and configure the package.
If you are comfortable with the command line, you can use apt instead. >Installing additional software automatically when starting Tails
To install an additional package automatically when starting Tails:
Turn on the Additional Software feature of the Persistent Storage.
Install the package using Synaptic or the apt command.
After the package is installed, a notification appears to ask if you want to install
this package every time you start Tails in the future.
If you choose Install Every Time, the package is saved in the Persistent Storage
and will be reinstalled automatically every time you start Tails.
The package will also be updated automatically when you connect to the Internet.
If you choose Install Only Once, the package is also saved in the Persistent
Storage but won't be reinstalled automatically every time you start Tails.
The same package can be reinstalled faster for some time because you won't have to
download it again.
Using additional software
Once installed, applications that don't use the network usually work out of the box.
However, Tails has some differences in terms of additional configuration and network
access.
Additional configuration
To save the configuration of additional software across different Tails sessions, you
can use the Dotfiles feature of the Persistent Storage.
Each application handles its configuration very differently, so we cannot give general
instructions on which files have to be saved using the Dotfiles features. >Network access
Tails only allows connections to the Tor network. Additional software that uses the
Internet must be configured to go through the Tor network otherwise, their connections
are blocked by default for security.
To make an application use the Tor network, you can either:
Configure the application to use Tor as a proxy with the following parameters:
Type: SOCKS5
Host: 127.0.0.1
Port: 9050
For example, to use Mumble in Tails, you can configure Tor as proxy in the network
configuration of Mumble:
Network configuration of Mumble with proxy settings
Open the application using torsocks on the command line.
Execute the following command in a Console. Replace
with the command line of the application that you want to open.
For example, to use Mumble in Tails, you can also execute the following command:
torsocks mumble
Technical networking considerations
Only TCP connections can go through the Tor network.
UDP connections, for example in many VoIP applications, and ICMP connections, for
example in the ping utility, cannot go through the Tor network and are blocked in
Tails.
DNS requests go through the Tor network if the application uses the system
configuration otherwise, DNS requests will fail to resolve.
IPv6 connections are blocked in Tails.
The default Tor port in Tails (9050) forces the use of different Tor circuits for
each different destination IP and port, also called "stream isolation".
Checking your list of additional software
To see which packages are installed automatically every time you start Tails, choose
Apps ? System Tools ? Additional Software.
Click the button to remove a package from the list.
The same list is also available from the Persistent Storage settings, by clicking on
the button of the Additional Software feature.
Removing additional software
When you installed the package, if you chose:
Install Only Once, you can remove it by restarting Tails.
Install Every Time, you can remove it either:
Using Additional Software:
Choose Apps ? System Tools ? Additional Software.
Click the to the right of the name of the package.
Using Synaptic:
When starting Tails, set up an administration password.
Choose Apps ? System Tools ? Synaptic Package Manager.
Click Search and search for the name of the package.
Right-click (on Mac, click with two fingers) on the name of the package in the
search results and choose Mark for Removal.
Click Apply to remove the package.
From the command line using apt.
After the package is removed, a notification appears to ask if you want to remove
this package from your list of additional software.
Freeing space in your Persistent Storage
After you installed many packages that you are not using anymore, you can free some
space in your Persistent Storage:
When starting Tails, set up an administration password.
Choose Apps ? System Tools ? Console.
Execute the following command.
sudo apt clean
Configuring additional APT repositories (for advanced users)
The packages available in Debian are submitted to public scrutiny.
Configuring additional APT repositories might break the security built into Tails and
might install software that has not even been approved by Debian. Be even more careful
with what you install.
This step is usually not needed to install additional software and might be necessary
only in very rare occasions.
Sometimes, you might need to configure additional APT repositories. For example, to
install packages from the non-free section of Debian. To do so:
When starting Tails, set up an administration password.
Create an apt-sources.list.d folder in your Persistent Storage:
sudo install -d -m 755 /live/persistence/TailsData_unlocked/apt-sources.list.d
As root, edit /live/persistence/TailsData_unlocked/persistence.conf, the
configuration of the Persistent Storage, and add the apt-sources.list.d folder as
a feature of type link:
/etc/apt/sources.list.d source=apt-sources.list.d,link
Write your additional sources.list files in the apt-sources.list.d folder.
For example, to add the non-free sections of Debian 13 (Trixie), backports, and
security updates, you can create a file named /live/persistence/TailsData_unlocked/
apt-sources.list.d/non-free.list with the following content:
deb tor+http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ trixie non-free
deb tor+http://security.debian.org/ trixie-security non-free
deb tor+http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ trixie-updates non-free
deb tor+http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ trixie-backports non-free
File names must end with .list and must only contain the following characters:
letters, digits, underscore, hyphen, and period.
Correct the ownership and permissions of your additional sources.list files to be
owned by root and only readable by others. For example, execute the following commands.
sudo chown root:root /live/persistence/TailsData_unlocked/apt-sources.list.d/non-
free.list
sudo chmod 644 /live/persistence/TailsData_unlocked/apt-sources.list.d/non-free.list
Restart Tails to apply the changes.
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Just upgraded. Thanks for your notification and great service!
Nevermind the "whiners" - Who needs omnimix when we have
Cypherpunk and Victor that work splendidly in Tails!
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On Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:40:40 +0100 (CET), Tails <tails@tails.net> wrote:[...]
https://tails.net/news/version_7.3.1/
if wine can run normally in tails . . .
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Download Page for wine_10.0~repack-12_all.deb
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Just upgraded. Thanks for your notification and great service!
Nevermind the "whiners" - Who needs omnimix when we have
Cypherpunk and Victor that work splendidly in Tails!
Just upgraded. Thanks for your notification and great service!
Nevermind the "whiners" - Who needs omnimix when we have
Cypherpunk and Victor that work splendidly in Tails!
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