Sparky Wiki

Sparky repository provides a number of own tools and some 3rd party applications.

If you would like to use the Sparky repository on your Debian “testing” based operating system, do:

1. Create Sparky lists:

 sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sparky-testing.list
 sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sparky-unstable.list

It can be any text editor, instead of 'nano'.

2. Paste the Sparky 'testing' repository into the 'sparky-testing.list' file:

 ## sparky
 deb https://sparkylinux.org/repo testing main
 deb-src https://sparkylinux.org/repo testing main

and paste Sparky 'unstable' repository into the 'sparky-unstable.list' file:

 deb https://sparkylinux.org/repo unstable main
 deb-src https://sparkylinux.org/repo unstable main

Users of Sparky based on Debian “stable” brunch should add Sparky's stable repositories as well, alongside to existing Sparky “testing” repos:

 sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sparky-stable.list

and past to the file:

 deb https://sparkylinux.org/repo stable main
 deb-src https://sparkylinux.org/repo stable main

Then save the files and leave the editor.

Otherwise, install 'sparky-apt' ⇒ 4.x package to do so.

3. Update package list and install Sparky public key via the package manager:

 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install sparky-keyring

or get the key manually:

 wget -O - https://sparkylinux.org/repo/sparkylinux.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -

4. Make sure you have 'apt-transport-https' package installed.

Anyway, the 'http' protocol is still available to connect to Sparky repository, but not recommended.