High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Debian-Installer is the installation program for Debian. It was originally written for the Debian 3.1 release (codename: “sarge”), although the first "release" version of a Linux distribution it was used with was Skolelinux Venus (1.0). It is also one of two official installers available for Ubuntu; the other being called Ubiquity (itself based on parts of debian-installer) which was introduced in Ubuntu 6.06 (codename: "Dapper Drake").