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title: "Debian repos over HTTPS"
date: 2018-12-03T00:00:00+01:00
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I've been using [deb.debian.org](https://deb.debian.org/) as the main debian repo on my servers pretty much since it's become available.

I've recently realized that the service is available over HTTPS, and since I'm all about encrypting *all of the things*, I figured I'd configure it on my servers.

This is going to be a very short post on how to do the same.

## Required package

`apt` can't use repositories available over https without installing a required package first.

```
apt install apt-transport-https
```

## The source.list file

Once the package has been installed, you can edit your `/etc/apt/sources.list` file with the following content :

```
deb https://deb.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb https://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb https://deb.debian.org/debian stable-updates main contrib non-free
deb https://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main contrib non-free
```

Or, if you'd rather follow the `stretch` releases instead of `stable` (to avoid upgrading to `buster` until you're ready once it will become the new `stable`) :

```
deb https://deb.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib non-free
deb https://deb.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main contrib non-free
deb https://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-updates main contrib non-free
deb https://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main contrib non-free
```

## Conclusion

That's all! As I said, this was going to be a short post.

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