Currently I use KeepassX 2.0.2 on both Windows and Ubuntu. I would also like to use it on Debian, but when I check the Debian repository for KeepassX, I see it looks like it only has the old version 0.4.3
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hugh@dell-vostro-debian:~$ apt show keepassx
Package: keepassx
Version: 0.4.3+dfsg-0.1+deb8u1
Installed-Size: 2,997 kB
Maintainer: Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de>
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libqt4-xml (>= 4:4.5.3), libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.7.0~beta1), libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.5.3), libstdc++6 (>= 4.9), libx11-6, libxtst6
Homepage: http://www.keepassx.org/
Tag: implemented-in::c++, interface::x11, role::program, scope::utility,
security::cryptography, suite::kde, uitoolkit::qt, use::storing,
x11::application
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Download-Size: 749 kB
APT-Sources: http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
Description: Cross Platform Password Manager
KeePassX is a free/open-source password manager or safe which helps you
to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your
passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a
key-disk. So you only have to remember one single master password or
insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database. The databases are
encrypted using the algorithms AES or Twofish.
hugh@dell-vostro-debian:~$
... so if I install KeepassX on Debian, I will only get a very old version?
I would prefer to use the newer version on my Debian computer since it uses the new database file format (.kdbx) so is easier to keep everything in sync. I also read somewhere that KeePassX version 0.4.3 is no longer maintained.
Does anyone know if the Debian repository will be updated anytime soon? I would prefer not to use an unofficial ppa to get the newer version in case it is less secure than the official repository.
Any help and guidance would be appreciated