Hello, I wanted to update fedora templates.First I downloaded new updates of all templates through terminal.Then in terminal dom0 I wrote qvm-template install fedora-41-xfce.
I got this error.
Help what’s wrong
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You would like update, upgrade or install??
On 4.2 or 4.3?
You can’t install what is already installed, lol.
Personally, to reinstall i use the official’s guide:
and to upgrade, the official’s guide too 
I see you try a command with 4.3 . I’m always with 4.2, perhaps some things are différents…
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Perhaps there is some sort of complete guide to installing fedora 41?
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to install the template, use –action=install instead of –action=reinstall or use the Qubes Template Manager in the “qubes tools”.
i just try sudo qubes-dom0-update --action=reinstall qubes-template-fedora-41 and it’s work for me 
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It looks like qvm-template is already running, or there are some leftovers present.
Check the permissions of the /var/tmp/qvm-template.lck file. Is it owned by your user or something else like root?
# dom0
ll /var/tmp/qvm-template.lck
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That’s what I was going to say. And maybe trying to reboot with the option qubes.skip_autostart could help, no?
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Since there is no response, @DVM , could you explain how there can be leftovers or how the permissions of a file can change?
It’s been bothering me since this post! lol
I’m not sure about the permissions. Maybe qvm-template was run as root?
As for the file itself, it likely means that the qvm-template process was abruptly interrupted. This could be due to a crash, or the process could have been terminated for another reason, leaving the lock file untouched.
Ah okay! Simply! lol. Thank you.
So, if that’s the case, just modify the permissions of the file for the user and everything will be back to normal?
Either this or simply removing the file would work.
ok, thank’s for clarification
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