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Sparky of the stable line is based on and uses Debian “stable” packages.

Users of Debian “stable” branch should add Sparky 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.

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 ('wget' has to be installed):

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