On 6/6/21 2:12 PM, Chrome wrote:
Hello there all,
I am currently following the instructions to create an OSINT VM
Michael Bazzell's "Open Source Intelligence Techniques 8th Edition."
Its a good book. I do wish he had a chapter for Qubes in it. I think the
only reason Michael doesn't push Qubes as a platform is that it has a
steep learning curve that not many are willing to take on. If you do
Qubes anyway and the learning curve is Ok, then you will find Qubes to
be a much more flexible platform in the long run.
Naturally I'm trying to avoid installing a whole new OS (Ubuntu is
recommended by the author) or to have a dedicated laptop for this. I
figured it would be a fun experiment to see how far I could get with
Qubes before I ran into problems.
All the way I'm sure.
So far, issues are minor but when I hit a roadblock, like the below
terminal text, I'm ill-prepared to troubleshoot it myself. Can someone
help me understand what I'm looking at and how to fix it so I can
install packages via pip onto my Fedora templateVM? Thank you
First templates do not have network access by default so you may need a
proxy setup.
https://qubes-os.discourse.group/t/when-to-assign-templatevms-a-network-connection/4307/2
By default pip needs/wants to install directly into the system space
(/usr/local/) which on a template is not shared with the AppVM. Because
this directory is not even presented to an AppVM file system it wont be
useable in the AppVM. It would need to be installed in the AppVM itself
if you want it installed in /usr/local.
The problem is, security wise, its a bad idea to run foreign code (pip's
package installer scripts) as root in a template. You could easily
compromise every AppVM on the system by introducing malicious code. That
is way pip was warning about running as root.
But if you use the "--user" flag as the error message says then pip can
install the packages an AppVM with everything installed into the user's
home directory. That way the user has control over the env and can
choose which environment they want to use.
If you were wanting to have the ability to start from a pristine
starting point for each user session then you might want to either to
create a dvm or create a default AppVM which can be cloned as often as
you like.
Relevant Terminal text:
[user@fedora-32 ~]$ sudo -H python3 -m pip install instalooter
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42988977/what-is-the-purpose-of-pip-install-user
$ sudo -H python3 -m pip install --user instalooter
The above will install in the users directory instead
WARNING: Running pip install with root privileges is generally not a
good idea. Try `python3 -m pip install --user` instead.
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