qubes-dom0-update results in HTTP Error 404

[Chris Grimmett]

I'm trying to install a Windows AppVM using this guide-- https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/windows-appvms

The problem is I cannot run this command-- `sudo qubes-dom0-update qubes-windows-tools`

In the output, there are four 404 errors, all with the same bad URL--

http://yum.qubes-os.org/r3.1/current/dom0/fc20/repodata/45f4890c7aa2937f1bc04bf43bb997ac8b86221a463a0348cf8bcb8c3066f2e7-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found
Trying other mirror.

I visited that link in my web browser, and it really is a 404. It looks like Qubes is not using an up-to-date mirror URL? Is there a way I can get Qubes to find and use an up-to-date mirror?


[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki]

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Probably yum local cache is outdated. You can force refresh with --clean
option.

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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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[Chris Grimmett]

Oops, sorry if I directly e-mailed you, Marek. I'm a mailing list noob and I think I need to reply-to-all when I did not. I did the command you suggested, then tried again. I saw the same 404 errors. It wasn't until I was working on another project, getting screenshots to save to AppVMs (https://jrruethe.github.io/blog/2015/09/17/screenshots-in-qubes/) when I was able to install a new package in Dom0. After that, I was able to get qubes-windows-tools updated. Here are the commands i ran:

* sudo qubes-dom0-update scrot
* sudo qubes-dom0-update qubes-windows-tools
* sudo qubes-dom0-update --enablerepo=qubes-*-testing qubes-windows-tools

[Andrew David Wong]

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On 2016-06-28 05:05, Chris Grimmett wrote:
> I did the command you suggested, then tried again. I saw the same
> 404 errors. It wasn't until I was working on another project,
> getting screenshots to save to AppVMs
> (https://jrruethe.github.io/blog/2015/09/17/screenshots-in-qubes/)
> when I was able to install a new package in Dom0. After that, I
> was able to get qubes-windows-tools updated. Here are the commands
> i ran:
>
> * sudo qubes-dom0-update scrot * sudo qubes-dom0-update
> qubes-windows-tools * sudo qubes-dom0-update
> --enablerepo=qubes-*-testing qubes-windows-tools
>

Are you downloading updates via Tor (sys-whonix)? If so, it's possible
that you just temporarily had a bad exit node.

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org
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