Can't download Fedora 35 or 36

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Hi everyone
I’m in the process of configuring a new qubes install but I can’t update the existing Fedora 34 template. I have updated dom0:

        sudo qubes-dom0-update

This goes without a problem. Then:

        sudo qubes-template-fedora-<35 or 36>

I get a message for both 35 and 36 telling me it can’t find them.

I’ve done this plenty of times but this has me beaten. Does anybody know what I am doing wrong?

Thanks for any help.

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It should be:

sudo qubes-dom0-update qubes-template-fedora-<number>
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Thanks for your reply. That appears to be working.

So, what I am getting is that to install the new template I have to run the dom0 update as well as the template install as one command? I think that due to time I initially updated dom0 and then later came along and tried both

     sudo qubes-update-fedora-36  and

     qubes-update-fedora-36

And this is where I got the error. So, they must be run together I gather.

Either way its installing without a problem as I type so that must be the issue.

I had no idea that was an issue so thanks for that.

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Hi @Brad,

In the command that @adw indicated to you:

  • qubes-dom0-update is the name of a program that allows to install and update software packages
  • sudo allows to run that program with higher privileges (that’s required to install and update software packages)
  • qubes-template-fedora-36 is the name of a software package that provides the fedora-36 template for Qubes OS

The entire command installs that package.

If you were to run the qubes-dom0-update program without specifying which software package you want to install or update, then the program would by default update all the packages that are already installed. Does that make sense?

Since sudo is required, the entire command would be:

sudo qubes-dom0-update

Note that qubes-dom0-update is what that program happens to be called, nothing more. The fact that the name contains dom0 doesn’t have any particular effect on what the program does.

As far as I know, neither qubes-template-fedora-36 or qubes-update-fedora-36 are programs that exist in a standard Qubes OS installation. The errors you see are very likely Qubes OS telling you that those command were not found (because they don’t exist). Does that match what you see?

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Blockquote

If you were to run the qubes-dom0-update program without specifying which software package you want to install or update, then the program would by default update all the packages that are already installed.

Blockquote

If “qubes-dom0-update” updates everything, what does
" qubesctl --show-output state.sls update.qubes-dom0"
do differently? (besides showing output)

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These are not real commands. Unfortunately, you cannot just make up commands that make sense in English and expect them to work. :slightly_smiling_face:

For how to actually update, see:

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That is, as you probably know, a salt call.
You can see the relevant state in /srv/formulas/base/update-formula/update
It’s relatively simple.

# Migrate to new onion repositories automatically, even if the user modified
# the repository file (in which case rpm do not automatically replace it)
/etc/yum.repos.d/qubes-dom0.repo:
  file.replace:
    - pattern: sik5nlgfc5qylnnsr57qrbm64zbdx6t4lreyhpon3ychmxmiem7tioad
    - repl: qubesosfasa4zl44o4tws22di6kepyzfeqv3tg4e3ztknltfxqrymdad
    - bufsize: file

/etc/yum.repos.d/qubes-templates.repo:
  file.replace:
    - pattern: sik5nlgfc5qylnnsr57qrbm64zbdx6t4lreyhpon3ychmxmiem7tioad
    - repl: qubesosfasa4zl44o4tws22di6kepyzfeqv3tg4e3ztknltfxqrymdad
    - bufsize: file

update:
  cmd.run:
    - name: |
        if qubes-dom0-update --quiet --assumeyes --clean --action=clean expire-cache >/dev/null 2>&1; then
            echo "result=True comment='Cache cleaned'"
        else
            echo "result=False comment='Could not clean cache'"
        fi
    - stateful: True
  pkg.uptodate:
    - refresh: False

Apart from the first 2 sections, which make sure that the right onion
addresses are used, you can see that the update section tries to clean
the cache before making sure that all packages are at the most recent
version.

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Thank you very much for clarifying, and also why its in the documentation like that (ie once you explained the “why”).

Now I get it and thank you @unman for really hammering it home.

I truly appreciate your time.