nepernicus on debian

[Jared]

I know nepernicus can be run under red hat, and now fidora. I have heard,
but not confermed that debian uses older versions of packages. I'm setting
up an older machine to run as a file server, and will probably run it in the
console most of the time. My question is can I configure debian to run
nepernicus? My impression is that it is possible, but not as easy to do over
red hat, but I'm pritty ignorent with this so appreciate any info.