On Tuesday, November 20, 2018 at 1:29:04 AM UTC-5, Антон Чехов wrote: > On Tuesday, November 20, 2018 at 3:39:24 AM UTC+1, William Fisher wrote: > > How do I update the TOR browsers at the Template VM level? I've updated TOR > > at the APP level but it doesn't stay updated. > > I updated my template-vm (whonix-gw-14, whonix-ws-14 and sys-whonix) this > week via console (sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade) and the > latest TOR browser was downloaded.
I currently avoid dist-upgrade and stick with upgrade. But YMMV. With that said, it's important to keep cloned copies of all your templates a few update versions back...just in case. Can be difficult to recover a botched upgrade once sys-net won't work any more. :) > I started a disposable whonix-vm and checked (help -> about tor browser) the > version and it was 8.0.3 which should be the latest. > Starting anon-whonix-vm was not updated (8.0) but tor-browser did download > the latest version upon opening it (help -> about tor browser) and it stays > updated. The explanation for the different behaviors is that, unlike most software in the templates, TB is stored in the private volume (in ~/.tb). When updated in the template, the template's private volume receives the new TB version. - DVMs are always started with a temporary copy of the parent template's current private volume. Hence the DVM automatically used the apt-get upgraded ~/.tb dir from the template. - AppVMs keep their own separate (non-updating) private volume after being created, so they do not inherit the template's update to ~/.tb. However once you update TB in the AppVM, since it resides in the private volume, it will remain updated after AppVM restarts. Brendan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/206c48db-c95f-48ef-a724-b1ab91bff6db%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
