Sparky Wiki

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

Sparky repository used on Debian “stable” based operating system.

Users of Sparky based on Debian “stable” branch should add Sparky's stable and testing repositories.

Sparky stable repository:

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

and past into the file:

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

Sparky testing repository:

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

and past into the file:

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

Create a preference file:

 sudo nano /etc/apt/preferences.d/sparky

and past into the file:

 Package: *
 Pin: release o=SparkyLinux,a=stable
 Pin-Priority: 1001
 
 Package: *
 Pin: release o=SparkyLinux,a=testing
 Pin-Priority: 900
 

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

Sparky repository used on Debian “testing” based operating system.

Users of Sparky based on Debian “testing” branch should add Sparky's testing repositories (and unstable and dde as an option).

Sparky testing repository:

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

and past into the file:

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

Sparky unstable repository (optional):

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

and past into the file:

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

Create a preference file:

 sudo nano /etc/apt/preferences.d/sparky

and past into the file:

 Package: *
 Pin: release o=SparkyLinux,a=stable
 Pin-Priority: -10
 
 Package: *
 Pin: release o=SparkyLinux,a=testing
 Pin-Priority: 1001

Otherwise, install 'sparky-apt' 5.x package to do so.

Download the Sparky's Public Key as a “deb” package from:

https://sparkylinux.org/repo/pool/main/s/sparky-keyring/

Then install it:

 sudo dpkg -i /path/to/sparky-keyring_VERSION_all.deb
 sudo apt-get update

or get the key manually:

Sparky 4.x ('wget' has to be installed):

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

Sparky 5.x ('wget2' has to be installed):

 wget2 -O - https://sparkylinux.org/repo/sparkylinux.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -