Hello,
Is it possible to update a directly installed application (such as Zotero) in a Template VM without having to grant the Template temporary internet access?
Thanking you all in advance,
Hello,
Is it possible to update a directly installed application (such as Zotero) in a Template VM without having to grant the Template temporary internet access?
Thanking you all in advance,
Just update it the same way that you installed it - download the installer from their site from some qube with internet access, move installer from qube to template and install it in template.
Or what update are you talking about? Some database update or something and not software update?
He probably means over qrexec.
Without connecting template to internet, you can update only software for which you have correspondent software repository in your repo file(s).
Otherwise, @tzwcfq’s tip is a way to go.
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I’m not sure if I am understanding you correctly.
The update is triggered through the application itself. There is nothing to download, unless you reinstall the application and I’m assuming if I do that, I will lose my settings and data.
It depends on how your app handles updates.
The standard way to update is indeed to just install new downloaded app over old one in template. This won’t change your data or configs because they’re stored in your AppVM and not in the template.
But if your app need to somehow change your data/configs during update then it can break it.
But there are different hacks to still update it:
I had forgotten that my data was in the AppVM, so yes; your solution will work. I like the idea also of doing the update in the AppVM so as to ensure consistency.
I made my usual mistake of trying to diagnose a leaf while ignoring the tree.