Dom0 Doesn't Always Show Updates Available

fsflover · March 22, 2022, 12:29pm

QubesOS:master ← QubesOS:update-commands

opened 03:56PM - 06 May 21 UTC

I have observed that most users are not aware that they should be updating via t…he **Qubes Update** tool or its equivalent `qubesctl` commands. This has most recently come up again in QubesOS/qubes-issues#6275. I have already updated [Updating Qubes OS](https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/updating-qubes-os/) to explicitly warn against updating via direct commands and to recommend using the **Qubes Update** tool or its equivalent `qubesctl` commands instead (https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-doc/commit/9eea4db0a62b7b7f70e3199e2abc095ada780cda). However, most users will not notice this documentation update. There are a great many Qubes users who have become accustomed, over the years, to using direct commands to perform updates. This post (and the usual cross-posting across our other venues) is intended as a PSA to disseminate the message more widely. Thank you to @DemiMarie for helping point me to the examples used in this post and for discussing the general issue. CC: @HW42