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@@ -83,11 +83,24 @@ choice of packages.
### Packages customised by mySociety
-If you're using Debian, you should add the mySociety debian archive to your
-`/etc/apt/sources.list` as described above. Doing this and following the above
-instructions will install a couple of custom dependencies. If you're using
-some other platform, you can optionally install these dependencies manually,
-as follows:
+If you're using Debian, you should add the mySociety Debian archive to your
+apt sources.
+
+ cat > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mysociety-debian.list <<EOF
+ deb http://debian.mysociety.org squeeze main
+ EOF
+
+You should also configure package-pinning to reduce the priority of this
+repository.
+
+ cat > /etc/apt/preferences <<EOF
+ Package: *
+ Pin: origin debian.mysociety.org
+ Pin-Priority: 50
+ EOF
+
+If you're using some other platform, you can optionally install these
+dependencies manually, as follows:
1. If you would like users to be able to get pretty PDFs as part of the
downloadable zipfile of their request history, install