[tor-bugs] #12687 [Tor bundles/installation]: Update to Debian documentation

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#12687: Update to Debian documentation
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 Reporter:  qAHt4GGo                  |          Owner:  erinn
     Type:  task                      |         Status:  new
 Priority:  major                     |      Milestone:
Component:  Tor bundles/installation  |        Version:
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 On Debian (I tested on stable (wheezy), testing (jessie) and unstable
 (sid)), if a user follows the instructions on
 https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en, the user still ends up
 with the Debian version of the package, not the Tor Project repo version.
 The user must use APT preferences (apt pinning) to prefer the Tor Project
 repo to the Debian repo in order to ensure that the tor package is
 installed from Tor Project's repo and not Debian's.

 The steps I took to remedy this are as follows:

 If the file does not exist, create the file "preferences" in /etc/apt/
 with the contents:

 Package: *
 Pin: origin deb.torproject.org
 Pin-Priority: 1001

 Package: *
 Pin: origin <your default debian mirror address>
 Pin-Priority: 500

 This should prefer any package in the Tor Project Debian repo that is also
 in the main Debian repository, even if the package in the Tor Project repo
 constitutes a downgrade (in the event of a necessary reversion of a broken
 package).

 The 500 for the default Debian repo is just a suggestion. 500 is the
 default pin priority for the main archive. The value jumps to 990 if the
 user specifies a target release using apt-get -t so overriding for an
 individual package functions like normal.

 Hope this helps.

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