Hello,
I have a standalone qube based on Fedora 38 which I want to upgrade to Fedora 41. It’s a sys-von qube I made so I can use ProtonVPN.
I can’t work out how to do it, more can I find instructions that either work or make sense enough for to me to be able to manage them.
Can anyone give me an idiot proof method?
It would be much appreciated! (R4.2)
Please see:
Same procedure applies to the standalone and HVM qubes also.
Very little information to go on here, but I’ll assume that “based on
Fedora 38” means “cloned from Fedora-38”. I don’t know what instructions
you have looked at or why they don’t make sense.
How have you been updating that qube in the past? Using the Qubes update
mechanism and the inbuilt proxy, I’ll assume.
38 is woefully out of date. Why has it taken you until now to
update, I wonder.
There is no idiot proof method of updating. The cleanest way is to
create a new standalone from Fedora-41, and apply the same configuration
you made when creating the old one. Then change the netvm for affected
qubes to use the new proxy.
The more risky method is to update from 38->39,39->40,40->41
The method is stated here
You’ll see that method 2 is more involved, more likely to bother an
idiot, and more time consuming. Use method 1.
I never presume to speak for the Qubes team.
When I comment in the Forum I speak for myself.
Thanks for your reply. I could provide more info if needed, but I’m unsure of what to provide. Perhaps you could suggest what info would be relevent.
Although I can’t possibly see as it being relevant information, as you were wondering; I have been rather poorly, and have not being near any tech other than a telephone for the past several months. Updating my systems at home wasn’t on my mind.
I’m not actually an idiot, thats not what idiot-proof means. But thanks, I will like take your suggestion of creating another Qube. It just took me long enough to get this working properly… with my limited skillset… I was hoping for a more plug and play solution.
Thank you. This was actually one of the things I tried, but for some reason it doesn’t seem to be playing along nicely. I don’t have the skills to really work out the issue, thats the problem!
I will more likely go with what @unman suggested and rebuild. It’s a quite simple single purpose qube anyway. Thanks!
So, the topic is about upgrading, not updating?
Indeed, as the op writes in the entry post already.
I have a standalone qube based on Fedora 38 which I want to upgrade to Fedora 41.
Nevermind. But as unman stated correctly, my suggested method (upgrade inplace) is more dangerous than creating a new qube as copy directly from the fedora 41 version.
If the settings and changes, that you have to apply on the cube, rather easy doable, this should be the prefered way.
Sorry yes I see I mixed the terms. Yes upgrading. I fixed the title.
I do not know if it is mentioned in any of the suggestions for in-place upgrade, but -for me- the very first thing would be to create a clone of the qube, make it able to run independently, and do the upgrades there. (Maybe it is obvious, but I do not see cloning mentioned very often.)
For sequential upgrades, from each version to the next, it is possible to save the intermediate steps, if there is enough storage space.
That way, if it goes wrong or gets complicated, you can roll back and try again.
I’m very sorry to hear that. I hope you are fully recovered.
Please accept my apologies for my thoughtless comment.
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When I comment in the Forum I speak for myself.
This is excellent advice.
I never presume to speak for the Qubes team.
When I comment in the Forum I speak for myself.