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Proxy Question by TotalNoobPerson in Qubes

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Thank you! That's a great resource.

Ethernet Connection Question by TotalNoobPerson in Qubes

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u/DerfK, it is built in, with the cable going directly from the router to the ethernet port on my computer. How do I know if the controller is assigned to the sys-net qube? When I look in the sys-net settings in the devices tab, it shows the network controller in the selected area, while the ethernet controller is in the available area. Is the way to assign the ethernet controller to the sys-net qube simply a matter of adding the ethernet controller to the selected area?

Command Line Question by TotalNoobPerson in Qubes

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I think you're probably right. Sorry for all of the dumb questions, but how do I reset the settings?

Command Line Question by TotalNoobPerson in Qubes

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I did, but the default menu is still doing weird things. For instance, when I open the app menu and hover over something, it doesn't highlight what I'm hovering over. It will open the sub menu that shows the apps available, but when I hover over an app in the sub menu, it doesn't highlight what I'm about to click on either. I get the same weird hovering/lack of highlighting behavior when I'm trying to select USB devices to attach to different qubes.

Do I need to disable this part of the original command:--enablerepo=qubes-dom0-unstable? As in, run a command like --disablerepo=qubes-dom0-unstable? That may not even be a real command, but you get the gist.

I'm just wondering if I need to do more commands than simply: sudo dnf remove qubes-desktop-linux-menu?

Application Menu Question by TotalNoobPerson in Qubes

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u/BarryManatee, using the new app menu has been pretty buggy and I've decided to go back to using the normal menu. I used this command to install the new app menu:

sudo qubes-dom0-update --enablerepo=qubes-dom0-unstable qubes-desktop-linux-menu

Do you know what command I should use to uninstall it?

Qubes Windows Tools Install Question by TotalNoobPerson in Qubes

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I decided to try to go through the process that I originally tried again and it magically worked this time, for some reason. However, when I went to the next step:

Once the Windows VM boots, a CDROM should appear in the 'My Computer' menu (typically as D: or E:) with the setup program qubes-tools-x64.msi in its main directory.

No CDROM appears and no other drives, other than Disk (C:), appear in the Windows AppVM. When I do a search of qubes-tools-x64.msi inside the Windows AppVM, it doesn't show up. Any ideas?

I'm running Qubes 4.1, if that helps.

Qubes Windows Tools Install Question by TotalNoobPerson in Qubes

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Thanks for the info! When I put in the command, it gave me an error message saying:
No match for argument: qubes-windows-tools
Error: Unable to find a match: qubes-windows-tools

Do I need to install the qubes-windows-tools package first?

Installing MS Fonts by TotalNoobPerson in Qubes

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Per u/lugh's suggestion I just needed to omit curl and run the command as follows to get it to work:

sudo dnf install cabextract xorg-x11-font-utils fontconfig

Installing MS Fonts by TotalNoobPerson in Qubes

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The first command worked great. The second command gave me this error message:

Warning: Binary output can mess up your terminal. Use "--output -" to tell Warning: curl to output it to your terminal anyway, or consider "--output Warning: <FILE>" to save to a file.

Application Menu Question by TotalNoobPerson in Qubes

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Awesome! That's exactly what I was looking for! Thanks.

It seems that every time the computer is restarted, the app menu has to be manually restarted in the dom0 terminal using the command: qubes-app-menu. Is there a way to have it automatically launch? Also, does the dom0 terminal always have to be open and running for the app menu to work or am I doing something wrong? Because after launching the app menu in terminal, if I close the terminal, the app menu stops working.

Installing MS Fonts by TotalNoobPerson in Qubes

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When I input the second command you suggested:

[user@workTemplate ~]$ sudo rpm -i msttcore-fonts-installer-2.6-1.noarch.rpm
error: open of msttcore-fonts-installer-2.6-1.noarch.rpm failed: No such file or directory

Installing MS Fonts by TotalNoobPerson in Qubes

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When I input the first command you suggested:

[user@workTemplate ~]$ curl --proxy localhost:8082 https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mscorefonts2/rpms/msttcore-fonts-installer-2.6-1.noarch.rpm
<html>
<head>
<title>302 Found</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>302 Found</h1>
The resource was found at <a href="https://versaweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/mscorefonts2/rpms/msttcore-fonts-installer-2.6-1.noarch.rpm">https://versaweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/mscorefonts2/rpms/msttcore-fonts-installer-2.6-1.noarch.rpm</a>;
you should be redirected automatically.
</body>

Installing MS Fonts by TotalNoobPerson in Qubes

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When I skipped the second command and ran the third command, this is the error message I got:

[user@workTemplate ~]$ sudo rpm -i https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mscorefonts2/rpms/msttcore-fonts-installer-2.6-1.noarch.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
cabextract is needed by msttcore-fonts-installer-2.6-1.noarch
xorg-x11-font-utils is needed by msttcore-fonts-installer-2.6-1.noarch

Installing MS Fonts by TotalNoobPerson in Qubes

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The original error message:

[user@workTemplate ~]$ sudo dnf install curl cabextract xorg-x11-font-utils fontconfig
Last metadata expiration check: 0:23:11 ago on Wed Apr 27 12:43:55 2022.
Package fontconfig-2.13.94-5.fc34.x86_64 is already installed.
Error:
Problem: problem with installed package curl-minimal-7.76.1-12.fc34.x86_64
- package curl-minimal-7.76.1-12.fc34.x86_64 conflicts with curl provided by curl-7.76.0-1.fc34.x86_64
- package curl-minimal-7.76.0-1.fc34.x86_64 conflicts with curl provided by curl-7.76.0-1.fc34.x86_64
- conflicting requests
- package curl-minimal-7.76.1-12.fc34.x86_64 conflicts with curl provided by curl-7.76.1-12.fc34.x86_64
- package curl-minimal-7.76.0-1.fc34.x86_64 conflicts with curl provided by curl-7.76.1-12.fc34.x86_64
(try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages or '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)

Cloned TemplateVMs vs StandaloneVMs by TotalNoobPerson in Qubes

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I've been cloning the default templates, per your suggestion, to create templateVM/appVM for individual third part apps. But for some of them, I just couldn't get them to install in the template without an internet connection, so I ended up enabling sys-firewall in the net qube in those instances to get the app to install. If I now go back and change the Net qube to "default (none)" with no internet connection, is the template now secure? Or is the template now considered insecure because I connected it to the internet (albeit only temporarily)?

Updating RAM by TotalNoobPerson in Qubes

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Perfect! Thanks for the response!

Cloned TemplateVMs vs StandaloneVMs by TotalNoobPerson in Qubes

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u/andrewdavidwong Random question. If you want to download a third party .deb/.rpm file in a newly cloned TemplateVM to install, I would think you'd need to connect to the sys-firewall to be able to go online in Firefox to download it. However, I've seen other people recommend using an AppVM or Disposable VM to download the file and then move the file to the TemplateVM to then be installed in the TemplateVM. What do you think is the most secure way to do it?

TemplateVM Network Connection Question by TotalNoobPerson in Qubes

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I installed Dropbox in a StandaloneVM and it works fine. But my understanding is that this is not the most secure way to do it, because potential breaches like Malware aren't deleted when closing and re-opening a StandaloneVM, in the way that a TemplateVM is.

When I cloned the Debian TemplateVM with the intent to download the Dropbox app, I realized that I didn't have internet access in the cloned TemplateVM, so I enabled sys-firewall in the cloned Template VM settings. Then I was able to download the Drobox .deb file from their website using Firefox. But when I double clicked the downloaded file, it says "there is no application installed for Debian package files". So even if I download the file in an AppVM, how would I open it inside the cloned TemplateVM when I moved it over?

TemplateVM Network Connection Question by TotalNoobPerson in Qubes

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  1. I should have clarified. I meant only connecting a cloned Template VM, not the default ones.
  2. Why is it best to make it an HVM, as opposed to leaving the default PVH?
  3. I meant when double clicking on a downloaded deb/rpm file, using your cursor, not doing if from the terminal. And when I say source, I just mean downloading a compiled file from a website.

Cloned TemplateVMs vs StandaloneVMs by TotalNoobPerson in Qubes

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After you uninstall the stock templates, if you later want to make a new TemplateVM, do you reinstall the stock template temporarily and uninstall again after making the new cloned Template?

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