The following attempt to install CentOS-7 template via dom0 terminal / command: sudo qubes-dom0-update --enablerepo=qubes-templates-community qubes-centos-7
results with the following error message: qvm-template: error: Same version of template ‘Centos 7’ not found
OS Details:
xen_version: 4.14.2
Linux 5.10.76.1.fc32.qubes.x86_64
The same command works in Qubes 4.0, this could be a bug?
Not a bug.
You can install Centos 8 from qubes-templates-community-testing - it
hasn’t yet migrated to the standard repository.
Centos 7 isn’t built for 4.1
I never presume to speak for the Qubes team.
When I comment in the Forum or in the mailing lists I speak for myself.
Bumping just in case someone gets to find this old thread via suggestions - as it happened to me.
While CentOS 7 may not be that easily available in 4.1, one can still download the RPM manually, copy it to dom0 and install locally. It may not be supported but I found out it works fine - along with updating the system to the newest version.
one can, with some clever tricks, update it to CentOS 8.5 and then migrate to a successor (AlmaLinux, EuroLinux, Rocky Linux, CentOS Stream). I wrote appropriate information on that in the Community Docs
That makes me wonder if the current state of AlmaLinux’ ELevate project would allow to upgrade a 8.x qube to AlmaLinux 9.0.
They recently announced an initial, non-production-ready support for 8 to 9 migration but I’m curious if this would work within a qube rather than non-qube system. Has anyone tried it?
Or if that’s not possible, I’ll just wait for 9.0 ready-made templates.
Nope, either I’m doing something wrong or it’s normal that it (leapp) throws a Python exception upon launching.
The good thing about the whole situation is that I noticed the earlier instructions on migration were wrong since I had already tweaked a system before writing them. This time with the new PR I started from a fresh CentOS 8.2 install.