Hi unman I said:
> > In version 4 of Qubes, the Debian templates need a little extra software to run as templates for the sys-XXX Qubes. Best to is to pieced [typo: proceed] as if for the minimal Debian template, and apt-install what's needed for the three sys-XXX Qubes. Some of those packages are already installed but apt will just tell you so, and install the missing ones > > > The Debian template should be usable for sys-** qubes - it is for me, > and I dont think I installed anything on the default template. (although > I do build my own.) > Please detail which software you think is missing. I'm sorry that i can't be as helpful as you hope: or not right away anyway. In particular, my Debian 9 template was installed sometime early in 2019 and therefore I cannot either confirm or counter whether issue #5123 would have fixed this for me: in theory it looks like it might have done. I plan to test this when I have time. In more detail: It failed to work on two different laptops. On one neither sys-net nor -usb work with the Debian 9 template out of the box as installed by R4.0, fully updated; on the other sys-net refused to work and -usb was absent. In both cases reverting to the fedora template made the VMs work again. See my previous query about this https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/dcec0b0d-2f61-85c4-5d15-77071f89f00e%40danwin1210.me I resolved the issue by going to the doc page suggested by xao in that thread and on the first machine I used apt install to install all the packages needed to be added to a minimal template to make sys-net and sys-usb work (just to be clear, I confirm that I had the +full+ template: but figured that if any of these were missing that would be relevant). On the other machine, installed the relevant packages to make sys-net work On both machines apt told me that several of these packages were already installed, but did install some packages on each machine. After that all three sys-XXX VMs worked with the full templates. My to do list includes an intention to try again with a new install to find out if #5123 did indeed fix it. The docs need to be updated either way, because an "old" Debian template, even if updated, will not have acquired the relevant extra software. When I know either way, I also plan to update the docs and, if need be, reopen #5123, but no promises when that will reach the "next task" in my queue... R~~ -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/CAK3jUKqoDRRHZS7rCPM8TCy35J1%3DvqAg3-czNuZ_sGQZ4pwuyA%40mail.gmail.com.
