APT repository

Wikimedia maintains its own APT repository, under http://apt.wikimedia.org/wikimedia This repository contains Debian/Ubuntu packages modified for use by Wikimedia, and Wikimedia specific native packages, that don't exist elsewhere.

Using

To use this repository, the following lines need to be present in /etc/apt/sources.list:

## Wikimedia APT repository
deb http://apt.wikimedia.org/wikimedia dapper-wikimedia main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://apt.wikimedia.org/wikimedia dapper-wikimedia main restricted universe multiverse

Additionally, to make sure that the system prefers packages from this repository, and not packages from the origin distributions even if they have a higher version number, this APT source is "pinned" with a higher priority in /etc/apt/preferences:

Package: *
Pin: release o=Wikimedia
Pin-Priority: 1001

The Wikimedia repository is signed with the Wikimedia Archive Automatic Signing Key <root@wikimedia.org>. This public key must be installed in APT's GPG keyring for it to verify packages without nagging about it. This can be accomplished by installing the wikimedia-keyring package.