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Introduction[edit]

Many of the packages developed under the Whonix ™ umbrella can be thought of as independent projects in their own right. They are directly relevant to Debian hosts because they can increase privacy and security.

This guide shows how to download these select packages from the Whonix ™ repository; they can be downloaded stand-alone or combined.

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How-to: Install Whonix ™ Packages[edit]

Complete the following steps to add the Whonix ™ Signing Key to the system's APT keyring.

Open a terminal.

1. Package curl needs to be installed.

Install package(s) curl.

A. Update the package lists and upgrade the systemarchive.org.

sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade

B. Install the curl package(s).

Using apt command line parameter --no-install-recommendsarchive.org is in most cases optional.

sudo apt install --no-install-recommends curl

C. Done.

The procedure of installing package(s) curl is complete.

2. Download Whonix ™ Signing Key. [1]

A : Debian

If you are using Debian, run.

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TLS

curl --tlsv1.3 --output /usr/share/keyrings/derivative.asc --url https://www.whonix.org/keys/derivative.asc

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onion

Downloading over onion requires an already functional system Tor. torsocks curl --output /usr/share/keyrings/derivative.asc --url http://www.dds6qkxpwdeubwucdiaord2xgbbeyds25rbsgr73tbfpqpt4a6vjwsyd.onion/keys/derivative.asc

B : Qubes

If you are using a Qubes Debian Template, run.

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TLS

curl --proxy http://127.0.0.1:8082/ --tlsv1.3 --output /usr/share/keyrings/derivative.asc --url https://www.whonix.org/keys/derivative.asc

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onion

Downloading over onion requires an already functional system Tor. torsocks curl --proxy http://127.0.0.1:8082/ --output /usr/share/keyrings/derivative.asc --url http://www.dds6qkxpwdeubwucdiaord2xgbbeyds25rbsgr73tbfpqpt4a6vjwsyd.onion/keys/derivative.asc

3. Users can check Whonix ™ Signing Key for better security.

4. Done.

The procedure of adding the Whonix ™ signing key is now complete.

Add Whonix ™ Repository.

Choose either: Option A, Option B OR Option C

A : Onion Rep.

Option A: Add Whonix ™ Onion Repository.

To add Whonix ™ Repository over Onion please install apt-transport-tor from the Debian repository.

sudo apt install apt-transport-tor

Add Whonix ™ APT repository for default Whonix ™ using Debian stable. At the time of writing this was bullseye.

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/derivative.asc] tor+http://deb.dds6qkxpwdeubwucdiaord2xgbbeyds25rbsgr73tbfpqpt4a6vjwsyd.onion bullseye main contrib non-free" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/derivative.list

B : Clearnet Rep. via Tor

Option B: Add Whonix ™ Clearnet Repository over Tor.

To add Whonix ™ Repository over torified clearnet install apt-transport-tor from the Debian repository.

sudo apt install apt-transport-tor

Add Whonix ™ APT repository for default Whonix ™ using Debian stable. At the time of writing this was bullseye.

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/derivative.asc] tor+https://deb.whonix.org bullseye main contrib non-free" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/derivative.list

C : Clearnet Rep.

Option C: Add Whonix Clearnet Repository over clearnet.

NOTE: When later using Whonix ™ repository tool, then this will be upgraded to "Clearnet Rep. via Tor", unless see footnote. [2]

To add Whonix ™ Repository over clearnet please add Whonix ™ APT repository for default Whonix ™ using Debian stable. At the time of writing this was bullseye.

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/derivative.asc] https://deb.whonix.org bullseye main contrib non-free" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/derivative.list

Install a supported package.

Note: Replace package-name with the actual name of a supported package.

Install package(s) package-name.

A. Update the package lists and upgrade the systemarchive.org.

sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade

B. Install the package-name package(s).

Using apt command line parameter --no-install-recommendsarchive.org is in most cases optional.

sudo apt install --no-install-recommends package-name

C. Done.

The procedure of installing package(s) package-name is complete.

Supported Packages[edit]

Packages Looking for a Contributor[edit]

Footnotes[edit]

  1. ↑ See Secure Downloads to understand why curl and the parameters --tlsv1.3 are used instead of wget.

    Placing an additional signing key into folder /usr/share/keyrings by itself alone has no impact on security as this folder is not automatically used by Debian's APT by default. Only when an APT sources list configuration file points to folder /usr/share/keyrings using the signed-by keyword the signing key will be actually used. Therefore deleting keys in /usr/share/keyrings is optional if intending to disable an APT repository. See also APT Signing Key Folders.
  2. ↑ Unless using repository-dist --transport plain-tls. See also man repository-dist.
  3. ↑ https://phabricator.whonix.org/T524archive.org

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