Hello there.
I have installed Qubes 4.1 rc-1 on my PC. I was already testing 4.1 previously with minimal templates for last 1 year but freshly installed release candidate 1. I tried to install debian 11 minimal template on RC. qvm-template install --enablerepo=qubes-templates-itl-testing debian-11-minimal
I have tried with Clearnet, Whonix (default repos and Onion repos both). So definitely not an issue with my network. As everything else working like updates of Debian-11/Fedora-34, browsing in VMs and Whonix-ws-dvm etc.
I have also tried fedora-34-minimal with same luck.
Hi @mebraska ,
You don’t use the good package name (missing the qubes-template- prefix), see the template package list from the templates-itl-testing repository.
Have you tried RC1?
The usual command for template install redirects to qvm-template now and it doesn’t include qubes-template.
Anyways, It doesn’t get downloaded either way.
There seems to be a major issue in trying to use Whonix as an updateVM,
both for dom0 and for templates.
It is not restricted to use of onion repositories.
You could debug this by tracing the flow within sys-whonix: I don’t use
it and am not familiar with the update mechanism there.
I reinstalled Qubes again today and selected Fedora 34 as the default template. This allows me to download and install the Debian 11 minimal template and the others. On another PC I repeated the whole process and selected Debian-11 as default template and there I could not download the templates again. So it looks like the problem is related to the default template selection under Debian-11.
Can you run qvm-template install with sys-whonix ? or it’s only work with sys-firewall like i said before ? btw i don’t install debian 11 in initial config.
With sys-whonix I get the same error message that it cannot be downloaded. On both PCs with Debian-11 and Fedora-34 as default template.
Only on the PC where I have selected Fedora 34 as the default template in the initial config, I can download the templates via sys-firewall.
I have done multiple installs with different configurations and it never worked for me.
I have tried only fedora-34 template install and trying it with sys-firewall
All templates install and with sys-firewall or with sys-whonix
I also tried it with latest weekly build (today) and same results
I was previously running Qubes 4.1 test builds from @fepitre and there was no issue. My last working build was with whonix 15 and qubes-core-admin 4.1.21
This is definitely something which needs to be solved, but I am not skilled enough to debug it myself. Help is really needed here by some dev.
I’m also experiencing the same issue (not being able to install TempateVM’s via qvm-template) - not only with minimal TemplateVM’s but all of them.
All of my qubes are based on Debian 11 or Whonix 16. sys-whonix being UpdateVM for dom0 package updates are possible and everything else seems to work as expected.