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Sparky of the testing (rolling) line is based on and uses Debian “testing” packages.

Users of Debian “testing” branch should add Sparky testing repository to get access to Sparky repos.

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 ('wget2' has to be installed):

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