HAProxy stands for High Availability Proxy, If you are running the Debian Jessie-8 operating system and install  HAProxy 1.7-stable version

First, you need to enable the backports repository in  Debian Jessie-8    



# echo deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main | \

      sed 's/\(.*\)-sloppy \(.*\)/&@\1 \2/' | tr @ '\n' | \

      tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list

Then, execute below commands,


# apt-get update



# apt-get install haproxy -t jessie-backports


You can access the latest version HAProxy-1.7-stable

Of course alternative installation steps for latest release.

You need to enable the backports repository:



# echo deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main | \

      sed 's/\(.*-backports\) \(.*\)/&@\1-sloppy \2/' | tr @ '\n' | \

      tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list

Then, enable a dedicated repository


# curl https://haproxy.debian.net/bernat.debian.org.gpg | \

      apt-key add -



# echo deb http://haproxy.debian.net jessie-backports-1.7 main | \

      tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/haproxy.list

then, execute the below commands,


# apt-get update



# apt-get install haproxy -t jessie-backports-1.7

You will able to access the latest release of HAProxy 1.7-stable.