Re: [Tails-dev] Help needed for customizing Tails

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Author: intrigeri
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To: The Tails public development discussion list
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Help needed for customizing Tails
Hi,

unknow-email:
> I read these docs:


> - https://tails.boum.org/contribute/APT_repository/custom/
> - https://tails.boum.org/contribute/APT_repository/


Please do also read https://tails.boum.org/contribute/derivatives/

> But I still do not understand how to add a package not provided by the
> Tails's APT repo. For beginning I want to add the chirp package. So I
> put it the binary package chirp in the folder
> config/chroot_local-packages/ but I have unmet dependencies (putting
> these dependencies in the same folders do not resolve my problem).


Please read live-build 2.x documentation. I think that you instead
want to add a .list file in config/chroot_local-packageslists/.

> It seems that I could add a file in the folder config/APT_overlays.d to
> add sources, but I do not know what to put inside the file.


I don't think that this would do what you want.

> To be honest, I am not very familiar with advanced Debian administration.


Then it's a very good opportunity to learn some more :)

Cheers,
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intrigeri