Installing software trimage in fedora template ind qubes 4.1

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Hello,
I am posting here because I failed to install trimage (https://trimage.org/) in a fedora template. The topic “Installing Software in Qubes (all methods)” did not help me or I did not get it.
I want to do it the right, secure and “autoupdateable” way.
It is in the repository: RPM Sphere noarch, but not in the standard repository and not in the RPM Fusion repositories (which I got working).
So I guess I have to somehow allow the RPM Sphere repositories in my template to be able to install trimage.

I hope you can help me.
Thank you very much
Mol
P.S. I know trimage is available in the debian standard repository, but to use that would be only the second best solution for me, as I want to use trimage in an existing qube that is based on fedora.

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Did you try to follow these instructions from here?

Install Howto

  1. Add RPM Fusion repositories to your system
  2. Download latest rpmsphere-release rpm from
https://github.com/rpmsphere/noarch/tree/master/r
  1. Install rpmsphere-release rpm:
# rpm -Uvh rpmsphere-release*rpm
  1. Install trimage rpm package:
# dnf install trimage
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Sorry, I am rather new to qubes. RPM Fusion I have added used sucessfully before.

But even if this might seem a very stupid question:
How do I go about Step 2 “Download latest rpmsphere-release rpm from
noarch/r at master · rpmsphere/noarch · GitHub” ? in my template terminal?

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You can download it in any of your VM for example in disposable vm and then transfer the downloaded file to template:

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It worked. Thanks!

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Just two more questions: having used the above procedure to install trimage: will it update automatically? Are there any security issues using this method?

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It seems to add its the repo here /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmsphere.repo so It should update automatically.

No idea about this repo. It seems not credible to me so I wouldn’t use it myself.