WARNING: Whonix Meta Packages Test Result:

[raah...@gmail.com]

Whonix-Gateway detected, but the meta package qubes-whonix-gateway is not installed. Did you accidentally uninstall it?
See also: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Whonix_Debian_Packages
If you know what you are doing, feel free to disable this check. Create a file /etc/whonix.d/50_whonixcheck_user.conf and add:
whonixcheck_skip_functions+=" check_meta_packages "

What does this mean? Only thing i noticed in past couple days is lots of huge updates for the whonix, and one day it was taking a real long time. How do I fix this?

Thanks.

[Albin Otterhaell]

raah...@gmail.com:

I reinstalled the package by executing the "sudo apt install
qubes-whonix-workstation" (happened to workstation too) and "sudo apt
install "sudo apt install qubes-whonix-gateway".

It's seems to be a bug with Whonix upgrade. But this issue should be
reported to the Whonix project directly. I CC'd Patrick.

Albin

[Patrick Schleizer]

raah...@gmail.com:

Please follow any 'See also:
https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Whonix_Debian_Packages ' links - they
usually contain explanation for exactly this.

Also answered here:

https://forums.whonix.org/t/warning-whonix-meta-packages-test-result

Cheers,
Patrick

[raah...@gmail.com]

So i just did the normal update from qubes manager again for both whonix templates. I rebooted didn't see that message again, but you're saying I'm definitely not properly updated unless I followed all those instruction steps you linked? And So just to be sure reinstalling those two meta packages is not enough, we also have to purge all those obsolete packages, autoremove old packages, and delete obsolete files manually? I just want to clarify before i go and do all that.

Thanks,

Rich.

[donoban]

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Same problem here, after last updates I saw a lot of unused packages
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[Niels Kobschaetzki]

I have now the same problem.
Where did you reinstall this? I can't find those packages in the
whonix-ws or -gw-template-VM when executing those commands.
Since you used apt I guess you didn't anything do in dom0

Niels

[donoban]

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> Where did you reinstall this? I can't find those packages in the
> whonix-ws or -gw-template-VM when executing those commands. Since
> you used apt I guess you didn't anything do in dom0
>
> Niels
>

I have just done it. Run:

"sudo apt-get install qubes-whonix-workstation" on WS template
"sudo apt-get install qubes-whonix-gateway" on GW template.

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[raah...@gmail.com]

yes I got the warning again. So i'm going to follow those whonix directions step by step which also say to remove uneeded packages so I'll see what happens.

[Patrick Schleizer]

raah...@gmail.com:

It's recommended to upgrade using the upgrading instructions Whonix 12
-> Whonix 13.

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Upgrading_Whonix_12_to_Whonix_13

Doing so moves you closer to Whonix 13 "factory recommendations",
removes cruft, gets no longer required packages removed. Not doing so
does not pose any intimidate risk.

Cheers,
Patrick