adrelanos-debian-package.md

layout: wip
title: "Monero Debian Package Repository for 2 years"
amount: 73
author: Patrick Schleizer
date: 15 April 2020
milestones:
  - name: "Monero Debian Package Initial Packaging"
    funds: 50% (37 XMR)
    done: 31 December 2020
    status: finished
  - name: "Monero Debian Package Maintenance 2021"
    funds: 25% (18 XMR)
    done:
    status: unfinished
  - name: "Monero Debian Package Maintenance 2022"
    funds: 25% (18 XMR)
    done:
    status: unfinished
payouts:
  - date: 18 February 2021
    amount: 37
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    amount:
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Importance to the Monero Community

Ease of installation and timely software upgrade on popular stable Linux distributions such as Debian is important to gain better usability and greater adaption.

A higher share of privacy conscious users are using Linux rather than Windows.

This is also a preparatory step for installation of Monero by default in (privacy focused) Linux operating systems such as Whonix (which I happen to be the founder). Other Debian based Linux distributions such as Tails (also privacy focused) are welcome to use the package as well.

User Experience

Instructions for users, simplified.

How to install monero GUI using apt-get

Download the repository signing key.

wget https://www.whonix.org/patrick.asc

Add the signing key.

sudo apt-key --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/monero.gpg add ~/patrick.asc

Add APT repository.

echo "deb https://deb.whonix.org buster main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/monero.list

Update your package lists.

sudo apt-get update

Install monero-gui.

sudo apt-get install monero-gui

Technical Implementation Details

The focus is the user. Usability. No frills.