Whonix Packages for Debian Hosts

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Support Status	testing
Difficulty	medium
Maintainer	HulaHoop
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Introduction

Many of the packages developed under the Whonix umbrella can be thought of as independent projects in their own right. Their relevance applies to Debian hosts where they can increase privacy and security.

This guide will show how you can download these select packages from the Whonix repository. They can be downloaded stand-alone or combined.

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Add Whonix Onion Repository

Note: Adding Whonix Onion Repository (this) should be preferred over adding Whonix Clearnet Repository (below).

Complete the follow steps to obtain the Whonix Signing Key.

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sudo apt-key --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/whonix.gpg adv --keyserver hkp://ipv4.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-keys 916B8D99C38EAF5E8ADC7A2A8D66066A2EEACCDA

sudo apt-key --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/whonix.gpg adv --keyserver hkp://ipv4.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-keys 916B8D99C38EAF5E8ADC7A2A8D66066A2EEACCDA

Install apt-transport-tor from the Debian repository.

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sudo apt-get install apt-transport-tor

sudo apt-get install apt-transport-tor

Add Whonix's APT repository for default Whonix using Debian stable. At the time of writing this was stretch.

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echo "tor+http://deb.dds6qkxpwdeubwucdiaord2xgbbeyds25rbsgr73tbfpqpt4a6vjwsyd.onion stretch main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/whonix.list

echo "tor+http://deb.dds6qkxpwdeubwucdiaord2xgbbeyds25rbsgr73tbfpqpt4a6vjwsyd.onion stretch main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/whonix.list

Add Whonix Clearnet Repository

Complete the follow steps to obtain the Whonix Signing Key.

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sudo apt-key --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/whonix.gpg adv --keyserver hkp://ipv4.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-keys 916B8D99C38EAF5E8ADC7A2A8D66066A2EEACCDA

sudo apt-key --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/whonix.gpg adv --keyserver hkp://ipv4.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-keys 916B8D99C38EAF5E8ADC7A2A8D66066A2EEACCDA

Add Whonix's APT repository for default Whonix using Debian stable. At the time of writing this was stretch.

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echo "deb http://deb.whonix.org stretch main contrib non-free" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/whonix.list

echo "deb http://deb.whonix.org stretch main contrib non-free" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/whonix.list

Install Package

Update the package lists.

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sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get update

Install this package. Replace package-name with the actual name of this package.

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sudo apt-get install package-name

sudo apt-get install package-name

Supported Packages

• pkg-manager-no-autoupdate
• security-misc
• corridor - Tor traffic whitelisting gateway - Debian focused fork of rustybird/corridor (Testing in progress)