Fedora 41 template

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According to qubes-os.org/news/2024/12/07 New Fedora 41 templates are now available for Qubes OS 4.2 in standard, minimal, and Xfce varieties.

However in the GUI Qubes Template Manager I see the standard and Xfce templates only being available in the testing repository.

Am I missing anything?

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fedora-41-minimal → qubes-templates-itl repository
fedora-41-xfce → qubes-templates-itl-testing
fedora-41 → qubes-templates-itl

EDIT: Looks like XFCE is still in testing phase, as in I am confirming what you are seeing. Need More Coffee…

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The testing repo has a newer version of fedora-41-xfce than the stable repo. It’s clearer in the CLI:

[user@dom0 ~]$ qvm-template list --available --all-versions fedora-41-xfce
Available Templates
fedora-41-xfce  0:4.2.0-202412200202  qubes-templates-itl-testing
fedora-41-xfce  0:4.2.0-202411301214  qubes-templates-itl-testing
fedora-41-xfce  0:4.2.0-202411301214  qubes-templates-itl
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In the CLI I get this output:
[gz007@dom0 ~]$ qvm-template list --available all-versions fedora-41-xfce
Available Templates
fedora-41-xfce 0:4.2.0-202412200202 qubes-templates-itl-testing
[gz007@dom0 ~]$

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That’s missing two dashes before all-versions

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Yes, thank you, now it shows the stable xfce version as well in the CLI.
But now, how do I install the template since it doesn’t show up in the
GUI Qubes Template Manager?

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Sudo qubes-dom0-update qubes-template-fedora-41-xfce

In dom0 terminal

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@corny

Sudo qubes-dom0-update qubes-template-fedora-41-xfce

In dom0 terminal

is giving this output:
"
[gz007@dom0 ~]$ sudo qubes-dom0-update qubes-template-fedora-41-xfce
Using sys-firewall as UpdateVM for Dom0
Downloading packages. This may take a while…
Redirecting to ‘qvm-template install fedora-41-xfce’
Downloading ‘qubes-template-fedora-41-xfce-0:4.2.0-202412200202’…
qubes-template-fedora-41-xfce-0:4.2.0-202412200202: 100%|▉| 1.88G/1.88G [00:53<0
Installing template ‘fedora-41-xfce’…
fedora-41-xfce: Importing data
[gz007@dom0 ~]$
"

The version nr. of the download is the same as the one in the testing repo, and not the stable one.

Thank you for for your time anyway.

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If you want the stable one, you can append the version to the template like this:

qvm-template install fedora-41-xfce-4.2.0-202411301214

Or, you can temporarily disable the testing repo to download the stable one:

qvm-template install fedora-41-xfce --disablerepo=qubes-templates-itl-testing
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@DVM
Thank you, that solved it. I did the same for the stable version of fedora-41.

However I still wonder why the stable versions don’t show up in The GUI Qubes Template Manager.

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